5 BJP MLAs, including LoP Suvendu Adhikari suspended from WB assembly

Kolkata, Mar 28: West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay on Monday suspended five BJP MLAs, including leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, for their alleged unruly conduct in the House. Adhikari, along with BJP legislators Dipak Burman, Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Tigga and Narahari Mahato, were suspended by the Speaker for future sessions this year after a ruckus broke out inside the House over the Birbhum violence in which eight people were charred to death.

 

 

 

Earlier in the day, the assembly plunged into pandemonium as ruling TMC and BJP MLAs exchanged blows after saffron party legislators demanded a statement by chief minister Mamata Banerjee over "worsening" law and order situation in the state, especially Birbhum district.

 

 

 

Condemning the incident, several BJP leaders, including its IT cell chief Amit Malviya and spokesperson Shehzad Jai Hind, shared a video on social media in which several MLAs can be seen locked in a scuffle on the floor of the House. According to news agency PTI, around 25 BJP MLAs, led by Adhikari, then walked out of the assembly, claiming that several party legislators were roughed up by TMC MLAs inside the House.

 

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"MLAs are not safe even inside the assembly... At least 8-10 of our legislators were beaten up, including chief whip Manoj Tigga, by some TMC MLAs, as we demanded that the CM make a statement in the House on the law and order issue," Adhikari said. TMC leader and state minister Firhad Hakim, however, told reporters that the BJP is staging a drama to create chaos in the assembly. "Few of our MLAs were injured inside the House. We condemn the conduct of the BJP," he said.