Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday submitted a petition to Speaker Biman Banerjee, searching for disqualification of Mukul Roy’s membership within the House below the anti-defection regulation as he had just lately switched from BJP to Trinamool Congress. have joined. The saffron celebration stated.
In response, the TMC insisted that the opposition chief ought to request his father and MP Shishir Adhikari to set an instance, as he too had joined the BJP from Mamata Banerjee’s camp forward of the meeting elections.
When contacted, the Speaker stated that he wouldn’t have the ability to say something in regards to the petition as he’s but to go to the Assembly.
“We have submitted a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly searching for disqualification of MLA Mukul Roy from the membership of the House. He had received the election on a BJP ticket, however later joined the TMC.
“Therefore, as per the law, he should resign. We have requested the speaker to look into the matter,” stated saffron celebration MLA Manoj Tigga.
Earlier this month, Roy rejoined the TMC, of which he was second-in-command after his three-and-a-half-year-long stint within the BJP.
He contested the March-April meeting elections on a BJP ticket and received the Krishnanagar North seat.
The officer had met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar just a few days in the past for Rai’s grievance.
Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, who contested the meeting election on a BJP ticket, stated on Twitter that the regulation calls for that he resign as an MLA as he was elected on the BJP’s image.
“Last week Mukul Roy joined AITC in presence of @MamataOfficial. There was no ambiguity on his defection. Politics will take its course, but the law demands that he resign as MLA on the BJP’s symbol. Let him follow his way of resigning from Rajya Sabha in 2017 before joining BJP,” Dasgupta tweeted.
Highlighting the BJP’s claims, TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh stated the chief of the opposition ought to ask his father, Sishir Adhikari, who had joined the saffron camp in March, “before giving lectures to others from our party. resign as”.
Sharing an analogous view, TMC’s Deputy Leader of Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Shekhar Roy stated the BJP, which has shaped authorities in different states by “illegalizing MLAs” of different events, mustn’t preach on the anti-defection regulation.
“TMC has not compelled anybody to hitch the celebration not like the BJP. In different states, BJP has adopted each tactic to nab MLAs of different events – from intimidation to intimidation.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
