New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- The government-opposition faceoff in the Lok Sabha intensified on Tuesday as eight protesting MPs were suspended for "unruly behaviour" after Rahul Gandhi was disallowed for the second day from quoting an article that cited an unpublished "memoir" of former Army chief M M Naravane on the 2020 India-China conflict. The seven MPs from the Congress and one from the CPI (M) were suspended for the remainder of the Budget session for trying to climb on the table of the secretary general, tearing papers and hurling them at the Chair. Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, lodging his strong protest over being disallowed from speaking in the House on a matter of national security and terming it a "blot on our democracy". As soon as Gandhi was asked to speak on the Motion of Thanks on Tuesday, he cited the Speaker's ruling of Monday and authenticated the copy of the article. "I have authenticated it," he said. To authenticate a document, a member has to submit a signed copy of it, affirming that it is correct to the best of his knowledge. Krishna Prasad Tenneti, who was in the Chair, asked him to table it and said, "We will examine it and get back". Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the Speaker passed a ruling on the matter and after that Gandhi should not raise the issue repeatedly.P8...