The West Bengal Assembly on Thursday accepted a privilege motion against Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for allegedly threatening four MLAs in the Assembly. Speaker Biman Banerjee said that the privilege motion has been accepted and it has been referred to the Privileges Committee of the House. Mr. Banerjee told reporters that Wednesday’s incident, when the alleged incident took place, has been recorded in the Assembly. Prima facie There is a case.
On Wednesday, four MLAs who switched from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Trinamool Congress alleged that Mr Adhikari had threatened them with tax raids. Terming the development as “unfortunate”, the Speaker said he was not aware of an incident in the state assembly where one MLA threatened another during the session. The Speaker said that he has directed the Committee of Privileges to complete the proceedings in the ongoing session of the State Legislative Assembly. Mr Banerjee also said that the MLAs fear for life and sought protection from them. Later in the day the seating arrangement of these MLAs sitting on the opposition benches was changed.
The MLAs who made allegations were Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj constituency, Tanmay Ghosh from Bishnupur seat, Soumen Roy from Kaliaganj seat and Biswajit Das from Baghda constituency, all of whom won on BJP ticket in May 2021 but later defected. Went. Trinamool.. On Wednesday, legislators protested when Mr. Adhikari was speaking on the subject of the budget.
question of loyalty
Reacting to the developments, BJP MLA Manoj Tigga said the allegations were baseless and asked which party the MLAs belonged to. “Instead of a privilege motion against Suvendu Adhikari, the Speaker should decide about the affiliation of these MLAs,” Mr. Tigga said. He said that since the MLAs are opposing the Leader of the Opposition, they have proved that they have joined the Trinamool. Earlier, a petition by BJP MLAs seeking disqualification of Mukul Roy was dismissed by the Speaker on the ground that the petitioners were unable to place sufficient evidence before him.