Forty-nine more opposition lawmakers of Lok Sabha, the lower House of Indian parliament, were suspended today for disrupting House proceedings, taking the total number to 141 MPs who have been suspended in the last two days in the current winter session of Parliament.

Of the suspended MPs, 95 are from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha.

Today's suspension came a day after 78 MPs were suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in a new record. Those suspended today include National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Congress' Shashi Tharoor, Bahujan Samaj Party's Danish Ali and Karti Chidambaram of Congress.

Last week, 14 MPs were suspended -- 13 from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha -- for raising slogans and disrupting parliamentary proceedings.

Amidst the continuous standoff in parliament over the issue of parliament security breach on December 13 when two men jumped into Lok Sabha chamber and opened gas cannisters, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the opposition parties over their protests in parliament and said they are "rattled" by defeats in recent assembly elections.

The BJP emerged victorious in the elections to the legislative assemblies in three of the five states last month.

Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi, Modi also said the opposition's conduct in parliament will ensure its numbers will go down in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and claimed his party will gain in numbers.

Modi also expressed concern at "attempts" to justify the parliament security breach, saying it is as worrisome as the incident itself, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi told reporters.

Modi's reference was apparently to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recently blamed unemployment and price rise for the parliament security breach on December 13.

Modi, according to BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, everyone believing in democracy and democratic values should have collectively condemned the December 13 incident. "How can a party believing in democratic values overtly or covertly justify it."

On the other hand, the opposition claimed the BJP-led government at the Centre wanted to get rid of the opposition in parliament to be able to pass laws without any resistance.

Opposition lawmakers today continued their protests over their suspension and pressing for a statement from Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on the parliament security breach, by displaying placards and shouted slogans like, "PM sadan mein aao. Gruh mantri istifa do (Prime Minister attend the parliament session. Home Minister resign)."

On suspension of more than 49 MPs from Lok Sabha today, Shashi Tharoor said, "...It is clear that they want an opposition-mukt Lok Sabha and they will do something similar in Rajya Sabha. At this point, unfortunately, we have to start writing obituaries for parliamentary democracy in India...Today, in solidarity with my colleagues, I too joined the protest and everybody who was present has been suspended for the rest of the session which means they want to pass their Bills without any discussion. I think it is a betrayal of parliamentary democracy..."

Today, as soon as the House assembled, opposition members were on their feet and some of them came to the Well of the House shouting slogans against the government and some of them were carrying a morphed picture of Modi.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said it was completely against the rules, regulations and proprieties to bring placards in the House.

"You may criticise the government but is it proper to stage protests like this? Do you want to set a precedent of such kind of protests? The whole country is watching your behaviour," he said.

"I strongly condemn the showing of the prime minister's morphed picture. It is a complete disrespect to the prime minister. People of the country have taught the opposition a good lesson in the recent assembly elections. They were badly defeated. People have thrown them out. I condemn this behaviour, the whole House condemns this. Action must be taken against those who brought the morphed pictures," said Pralhad Joshi.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was seen sitting in the front row of opposition benches and her son Rahul Gandhi was seated in the second row.

Outside the parliament, several opposition members, including Rahul Gandhi, protested the suspension of opposition lawmakers and shouted slogans against Amit Shah and seeking his response on the parliament security breach.