By means of PTI
KOLKATA: Newly appointed Chairman of Public Accounts Committee of the West Bengal Meeting Krishna Kalyani didn’t attend the scheduled assembly of the frame on Wednesday, whilst the BJP stated that it might do the entirety to prevent him from functioning because the PAC leader claiming he does no longer belong to the opposition.
Kalyani, like his predecessor Mukul Roy, is a BJP MLA who joined the TMC with out resigning from the Meeting.
Roy submitted his resignation because the chairman of the committee closing week, mentioning sick well being.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari threatened that the birthday party might transfer court docket to prevent Kalyani from discharging duties because the PAC chairman, contending that he not belonged to the BJP and that submit historically is going to an opposition member.
In reaction, Speaker Biman Banerjee stated, “As in keeping with to be had report within the Meeting, Krishna Kalyani stays with the BJP. I went by means of the guideline ebook to nominate him. If someone needs to transport court docket at the factor, it’s for the individual to come to a decision. The doorways of the judiciary are open to everybody.”
Banerjee stated that it’s the Speaker’s prerogative to nominate the PAC chairman.
TMC chief Krishna Kalyani received the Meeting election from the Raiganj seat on a BJP price tag closing 12 months.
He returned to the TMC later however didn’t renounce as a legislator.
He was once just lately appointed because the PAC leader rather than Mukul Roy.
The Speaker, in June, rejected Adhikari’s plea for disqualifying Roy as an MLA, pronouncing he didn’t in finding advantage within the argument.
The Calcutta Prime Courtroom on April 11 put aside the Speaker’s previous order pushing aside a petition by means of Adhikari which sought disqualification of Roy as a member of the Area at the floor of defection and restored the topic for recent attention.
Any other BJP legislator had moved the top court docket in July closing 12 months difficult Roy’s election as chairman of the PAC and prayed for the nomination of an opposition member to the submit as in keeping with custom.