New Delhi, Nov. 11: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee accepted the resignation of five Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MPs from Bihar on Tuesday, days after they announced it in protest against the attacks on north Indians in Mumbai by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists.

The five MPs are Prabhunath Singh, Rajiv Ranjan Singh ''Lalan'', Kailash Baitha, Meena Singh and George Fernandes.

The party has seven Lok Sabha MPs, including one from Uttar Pradesh and one from Lakshadweep.

The MPs had handed over their resignations to Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Acharya on Friday.

New Delhi, Nov

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday rejected a Breach of Privilege notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The notice on Breach of privilege was given on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

But after that the house witnessed a war of words broke out between speaker and two members of Left parties. And Chatterjee left the proceeding in the mid way of the discussion all of a sudden. The two left leaders include CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta and CPI (M) leader Basudev Acharya.

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav requested Chatterjee not to leave the house, but upset Chatterjee left the house and said that the Left leaders were deliberately making allegations against the Chair.

New Delhi, Oct 7 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today disqualified Dr. H. T. Sangliana and Ramswaroop Prasad from the membership of the House under the Anti-Defection Provisions of the constitution.

A Lok Sabha Secretariat statement said in New Delhi today that both Sangliana and Prasad were disqualified from the Lok Sabha under the tenth Schedule of the Constitution.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today took a strong stand in support of the electorate’s “right to recall elected representatives who ignore the interests of the people and are guilty of malfeasance and improper conduct or indulge in corrupt or criminal activities.”