Bengal LoP, suspended from meeting, protests after being prevented from coming into chamber

By PTI

KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who has been suspended from the West Bengal Assembly for the complete session until the House is prorogued, on Monday staged a sit-in protest on the premises after he was prevented from coming into his chamber.

Adhikari, together with 4 different BJP MLAs, was suspended by the speaker from the meeting after legislators from the saffron get together and the TMC got here to blows contained in the House on the final day of the finances session in March over the Birbhum killings.

Prorogation is discontinuing a session of Parliament or a Legislative Assembly with out dissolving it. When Adhikari, the Nandigram MLA, got here to the meeting, he was prevented from coming into his chamber citing the suspension discover.

Infuriated, he and another BJP legislators sat on an illustration close to the statue of B R Ambedkar on the premises. “This is autocratic. For the first time, an LoP has been stopped from entering his chamber in the assembly. The entire country knows how I was suspended in an undemocratic manner. As I am not allowed to enter my chamber, I would carry out my official work from this spot every day. This will be my office till I get to enter my chamber,” he informed reporters.

Speaker Biman Banerjee couldn’t be contacted for a remark.

Senior TMC chief and get together chief whip within the meeting, Nirmal Ghosh, mentioned Adhikari ought to cease making a scene as he’s nicely conscious {that a} suspended member will not be allowed to enter the meeting premises.

“Any member who has been suspended is generally not allowed to enter the assembly premises. He (Adhikari) is very well aware of it. He is just doing drama to get some mileage in the media,” he mentioned.

Adhikari, together with BJP legislators Dipak Burman, Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Tigga and Narahari Mahato, was on March 28 suspended for the complete session until the House is prorogued.

The House had plunged into chaos on that day as MLAs of each side engaged in fisticuffs, resulting in the hospitalisation of a number of the legislators.

The incident occurred after BJP MLAs trooped to the nicely, demanding a press release by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the “worsening” regulation and order state of affairs within the wake of Birbhum killings, through which 9 individuals (eight at the moment) died of burn accidents after assailants threw petrol bombs at a number of homes in Bogtui village close to Rampurhat on March 21 following the homicide of native TMC chief Bhadu Sheikh.

Even because the speaker tried to pacify the BJP MLAs, who continued sloganeering, a confrontation broke out with legislators of the treasury bench which finally led to the ugly scuffle.

The incident introduced again recollections of opposition Left and ruling TMC legislators buying and selling blows in December 2012 on the ground of the House, resulting in accidents on each side.