Kolkata, Sep 2 (PTI) Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was on Tuesday suspended for a day by Speaker Biman Banerjee for allegedly disrupting proceedings during a special session of the West Bengal Assembly convened to debate a motion condemning the alleged harassment of Bengali migrants.
During the discussion on the motion condemning alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants in BJP-ruled states, Adhikari stood up and interrupted Education Minister Bratya Basu for allegedly making ‘defamatory’ remarks about the Indian Army.
The BJP leader shouted slogans against the TMC government and demanded that Basu’s comments be expunged from the proceedings, a request denied by the Speaker.
“I am forced to suspend you for the day for repeatedly interrupting speeches and leaving your seat,” Banerjee said, prompting ruling party MLAs to thump their desks in approval.
BJP legislators soon staged a walkout, raising slogans such as “We don’t want this pro-appeasement Mamata government” and “shame, shame.” During the debate, Basu alleged that the Army had dismantled a TMC protest pandal near the Gandhi statue on Mayo Road, drawing a parallel with the sacrifices made by those who laid down their lives to defend their mother tongue and identity during the 1952 language movement, in erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
Outside the Assembly gates, Adhikari hit back at the ruling party, claiming he had been “unethically forced out.” “I was suspended because I protested against Basu’s defamatory remarks against the Indian Army. We want those remarks to be expunged,” he told reporters. PTI SUS PNT MNB
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