National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq suspended on Saturday the membership of Sunni Ittehad Council lawmaker Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel for the current session for using “objectionable indecent language” during the budget speech.

The House adopted a motion introduced by the speaker regarding the suspension of the member. “Muhammad Sana Ullah Khan Masti Khel MNA expressed objectionable and indecent remarks during the budget speech,” the motion said.

Earlier, the NA speaker said that he has been a part of the House since 2002, but he has never heard such words on the mike. “I do not have the words to express or condemn the incident,” he added.

Women lawmakers had demanded Ghulam Mustafa Shah, who presided over the session in the absence of NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, suspend Mastikhel after he used indecent language for Defence Minister Khawaja Asif.

Mustafa expunged the words during his speech. The SIC lawmaker was referring to the election mandate as how they made it to Parliament as compared to the treasury lawmakers.

Women lawmakers in the treasury demanded that the SIC MNA be completely suspended from the House while the opposition differed and called for limiting it to two days.

“Muhammad Sana Ullah Khan Masti Khel in his budget speech expressed highly objectionable and indecent remarks, thereby eroding and lowering the sanctity of the house in violation of rule of 30 of the Rules Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007. The member shall now forthwith withdraw from the precincts of the Assembly under rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of the Business in the National Assembly, 2007,” it said.