Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Thursday sought action against the officers sitting in the officer’s gallery who didn’t stand up while National Song ‘Vande Mataram’ was being played thereby showing disrespect to it,

Delhi Assembly Secretary has written a letter to the Delhi Chief Secretary saying that the Speaker has desired that necessary action may be taken under intimation to this office by August 6.

Earlier in the day, the Speaker suspended BJP legislator OP Sharma for using derogatory remarks against other MLAs and also marshalled out two BJP MLAs Vijender Gupta and Anil Bajpai for not letting the House function.

However, BJP MLA Gupta called it a “murder of democracy”. He said they were demanding action in an alleged scam of DTC bus purchase.