India, March 26 -- Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy today suspended Congress MLAs Tara Prasad Bahinipati and Ramesh Chandra Jena from the House for seven days over unruly behaviour.

Earlier today, the two legislators staged a protest in the House near the Speaker's podium over the issue of safety of women in the state by beating gongs.

Yesterday, the Speaker had suspended 12 MLAs of the party for seven days over unruly behaviour.

With the suspension of Bahinipati and Jena, all members of the Congress, which has 14 MLAs in the House, were suspended.

Days ago, Bahinipati was suspended from the House for seven days on similar grounds, over which the Congress MLAs were staging dharna near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the premises of ...