Suvendu Adhikari submits petition to Bengal Speaker looking for Mukul Roy’s disqualification as MLA
Chief of the opposition in Bengal Meeting Suvendu Adhikari on Friday submitted a petition to Speaker Biman Banerjee looking for disqualification of Mukul Roy’s club within the Space underneath the anti-defection regulation as he has not too long ago crossed over from the BJP to the TMC, a senior chief within the saffron party stated.
The TMC, in reaction, insisted that the opposition chief will have to request his father and parliamentarian Sisir Adhikari to steer by way of instance, as he, too, converted to the BJP from the Mamata Banerjee camp forward of the meeting polls.
The speaker, when contacted, then again, stated he received’t be capable of say the rest concerning the petition for now as he used to be but to discuss with the Meeting.
“We have now submitted a letter to the Speaker looking for disqualification of MLA Mukul Roy’s club within the Space. He had received the election on a BJP price ticket, however joined the TMC due to this fact.
“Due to this fact, as in keeping with regulation, he will have to renounce. We have now asked the Speaker to appear into the subject,” saffron party MLA Manoj Tigga stated.
Previous this month, Roy rejoined the TMC, of which he used to be as soon as the second-in-command, following his three-and-a-half year-long stint within the BJP.
He had contested the March-April meeting polls on a BJP price ticket and bagged the Krishnanagar Uttar seat.
Adhikari, a couple of days in the past, had met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to whinge about Roy.
Taking to Twitter, Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, who had unsuccessfully contested the meeting election on a BJP price ticket, stated the regulation calls for that he renounce as MLA as he used to be elected at the BJP image.
“Remaining week Mukul Roy joined AITC in presence of @MamataOfficial. There used to be no ambiguity over his defection. Politics will take its direction, however regulation calls for he renounce as MLA elected on BJP image. Let him practice his personal process resigning from Rajya Sabha in 2017 prior to becoming a member of BJP,” Dasgupta tweeted.
Making mild of BJP’s assertions, TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh, stated the chief of opposition will have to ask his father Sisir Adhikari, who joined the saffron camp in March, to “renounce as our party MP prior to lecturing others”.
Sharing a identical view, TMC Rajya Sabha deputy chief Sukhendu Sekhar Roy stated the BJP, which has shaped executive in different states by way of “poaching MLAs” from others events, shouldn’t be the only giving sermons at the anti-defection regulation.
“The TMC has no longer compelled someone to enroll in the party, not like the BJP. The BJP in different states have used each and every trick — from threats to intimidation — to poach MLAs of different events,” he added.
