Trinamool Urges Lok Sabha Speaker To Disqualify 2 MPs Who Jumped To BJP

Kolkata:

Chief of the Trinamool Congress party within the Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandopadhyay held a telephonic dialog with Speaker Om Birla on Thursday in quest of disqualification of party MPs Sisir Adhikari and Sunil Mondal, who left the Mamata Banerjee-led party and joined the BJP, beneath anti-defection regulations.

The Trinamool MP stated that he had despatched two letters to the Speaker at the factor in January and Would possibly.

“I had a chat with Speaker Om Birla in quest of disqualification of Sisir Adhikari and Sunil Mondal. He stated that he’s going to cross during the papers,” Mr Bandopadhyay stated.

Kanthi MP Sisir Adhikari and Bardhaman Purba MP Sunil Mondal, elected on Trinamool tickets within the 2019 common elections, had converted to the BJP prior to the meeting polls however didn’t step down.

Mr Bandopadhyay instructed PTI, he had written to the Speaker on Would possibly 17 in quest of “disqualification of Sisir Kumar Adhikari as a member of the Lok Sabha, as in keeping with Rule 6 of the Individuals of Lok Sabha (disqualification on grounds of defection) Laws, 1985.”

Mr Bandopadhyay stated that he had additionally despatched a reminder to the Speaker on Would possibly 12 about his previous petition despatched in January in quest of Mr Mondal’s disqualification beneath anti-defection regulations.

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday had expressed displeasure on the BJP-led central executive for “hurriedly” renominating former journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who had resigned from Rajya Sabha and unsuccessfully contested the hot West Bengal meeting elections on a BJP price ticket, to the Higher Area of Parliament.

Whilst Mr Dasgupta was once renominated to the Rajya Sabha, the Lok Sabha Speaker didn’t reply to the pleas of the Trinamool to disqualify the club of party MPs Sunil Mondal and Sisir Adhikari, Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh had stated.