Along with Mukul Roy, who not too long ago stop the BJP to affix the ruling TMC, grew to become a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal Assembly regardless of robust opposition from the BJP, the price range session – to start on July 2. Is – will see fireworks between the Treasury and the opposition bench.
TMC had nominated 13 MLAs for the 20-member PAC, however Mukul Roy submitted his identify on the final second. His identify was proposed by Ruden Lepcha, MLA from Kalimpong and chief of the Binay Tamang faction of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
Roy, formally a BJP MLA from Krishnanagar North, joined the TMC final week, however didn’t resign from the meeting.
The BJP, then again, had nominated six members – famend economist Ashok Lahiri, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, Bankim Ghosh, Ambika Roy, Vivekananda Bouri, Nikhil Ranjan Dey and Tarun Maity. The occasion additionally strongly opposed Roy’s nomination.
Roy, formally a BJP MLA from Krishnanagar North, joined the TMC final week, however didn’t resign from the meeting.
The BJP submitted a petition to Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee, searching for disqualification of Rai beneath the anti-defection regulation as he had not resigned from the occasion earlier than switching sides.
Referring to Rule 302 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business within the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, the BJP’s letter stated, “We have objection to the acceptance of the nomination type of Mukul Roy in the course of the scrutiny course of. The above rule 302 clearly states that 20 members of the Public Accounts Committee shall be elected from amongst its members on the precept of proportional illustration.
A day earlier, TMC president and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee publicly supported Roy’s nomination, saying that whereas Roy “is a member of the BJP”, anybody can file nominations for PAC membership and it’s the president who has the ultimate say. have the correct to name. “Where is the problem? He has got the support of Binay Tamang’s party and we will support him too. It will be the Speaker’s decision..If voting is held, we will win,” Banerjee stated on Thursday.
On Friday, Speaker Biman Banerjee launched the record of 20 members of the PAC. With no extra nominations filed, 20 members together with Mukul Roy had been declared elected unopposed.
The 294-member West Bengal Assembly has 41 committees and the PAC, which acts because the audit watchdog of the House, is taken into account a very powerful.
There is theory that Roy could also be made the chairman of the PAC. BJP sources stated if Roy turns into the PAC chief, his MLAs will resign from all 41 meeting committees, resulting in a potential constitutional disaster.
However, the ruling TMC is adamant. “At the time of campaigning, Suvendu Adhikari attacked us by making baseless allegations against us. We have not forgotten them, and will give a befitting reply to them in the assembly,” stated a senior TMC chief.
As per conference, a member of an opposition occasion is made the PAC President by the Speaker. However, if Roy had bought the put up, he would have been the primary member of a ruling occasion to be made the president.
However, the TMC argues that Roy remains to be a member of the opposition within the House.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
