New Delhi | The Lok Sabha on Wednesday suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee for the remainder of the Monsoon Session for using “undignified” language against women members after he had a heated exchange with the NCPI members in the Lower House chamber.

The Monsoon Session ends on August 13.

As soon as the House re-assembled at 2 pm after the second adjournment of the day, Krishna Prasad Tenneti, who was chairing the proceedings, referred to a complaint filed by the members with the Speaker against Banerjee and said his remarks had hurt the dignity of the House.

He then asked Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to read out a resolution seeking the consent of the House to suspend Banerjee.

The resolution was passed by a voice vote amid sloganeering by the opposition members over the NEET paper leak and other issues.

As the resolution was adopted, Tenneti asked Banerjee to leave the precincts of the House.

A Lok Sabha secretariat circular later said Banerjee cannot enter the Lok Sabha chamber, lobby or galleries during the suspension period.

He will also not get his daily allowance as an MP, cannot participate in committee meetings of which he is a member and cannot vote in committee elections, it said.

The TMC MP’s name will be removed from the House agenda as well.

Amid continuous sloganeering by the opposition, the House was adjourned for the day.

Earlier, Banerjee had a heated exchange with some of his former party colleagues, who have merged their rebel faction with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), in the Lok Sabha chamber after the House was adjourned following an uproar by the opposition.

The NCPI members involved in the exchange included Mitali Bagh, Shatabdi Roy and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.

Banerjee has remained loyal to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee.

It was not clear what led to the heated exchange.

Some opposition members intervened and tried to calm down both sides. When some of the opposition MPs asked him what had happened, Banerjee left the House.

Bagh, Dastidar and some other NCPI members subsequently went to meet Speaker Om Birla at his chamber, apparently to raise the issue.

As many as 20 TMC MPs revolted against the party leadership after its crushing defeat in the West Bengal elections and joined the NCPI.

They started sitting separately from the TMC MPs in the Lok Sabha, after expressing their allegiance to the ruling NDA and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Later, opposition MPs met Birla seeking the withdrawal of Banerjee's suspension, contending that the alleged altercation for which action was taken had occurred after the House was adjourned and, therefore, could not be the basis for disciplinary action under the House rules.