chennai all dmk mlas were evicted en masse and two of them were suspended from the tamil nadu assembly on monday following heated exchanges over a toi report on alleged irregularities in a contract awarded for gpsenabled bus ticketing system the house was discussing a special call attention motion moved by the opposition parties including the dmk cpi cpm and puthiya tamilagam on the issue as soon as dmk floor leader m k stalin began to talk finance minister o panneerselvam who is also leader of the house objected to certain remarks by him and recommended that the speaker expunge them chief minister j jayalalithaa intervened to ask if the member needed an explanation from the minister when he had already come to his own conclusions quoting from the toi report stalin said the contract was awarded to an inexperienced firm and the company was set up the day the tender was floated by the transport department it is a blacklisted firm he said the award of contract is not proper and the state has to inquire into the issue cpm legislator a soundararajan raised doubts over awarding of the contract to a new firm without adequate experience cpi mla s arumugam sought action against the firm transport minister v senthil balaji said stalin did not have the moral right to raise the issue triggering loud protests from dmk mlas furious dmk members raised objections and trooped close to the well when his repeated pleas to maintain decorum failed to have an effect speaker dhanapal summoned the marshals and ordered the eviction of dmk mlas besides the suspension of two of them s s sivasankar and j anbazhagan for disturbing proceedings in his reply balaji defended the tender process saying that procedures were strictly adhered to the hyderabadbased firm ingenerie technologies solutions a registered company under the companies act had changed its name only to reflect the nature of business and had seven years of experience he said it is wrong to say that the company was awarded the contract on the day it was set up he said the net worth of the firm was rs 1503 crore as per the certified documents and not as mentioned on the registrar of companies website the tender scrutiny committee and award committee had finalised the contract after thorough scrutiny the minister said adding that legal proceedings would be initiated against toi he said the company among the consortiums with the lowest quotations had already entered into business with transport corporations of andhra pradesh gujarat punjab and rajasthan it has also rendered services to nearly 50 private corporations the minister said the contractor quoted only 134 paise per ticket and this would cost the government rs 2395 crore for five years the state would have to spend rs 26749 crore if it purchased the machines on its own this way the government has reduced the losses by rs 2797 crore he said