Via PTI
KOLKATA: The listening to into Mukul Roy’s disqualification as an MLA will start once more in West Bengal meeting, Speaker Biman Banerjee, who had previous disregarded a petition on it, stated on Monday. Meeting assets stated the listening to within the case is prone to start this Friday. “The honourable court docket has despatched a reminder. I will be able to glance into it legally. I will be able to name each events and dangle a listening to,” Banerjee informed newshounds right here.
Calcutta Top Court docket had ultimate week put aside the speaker’s order brushing aside a petition by means of Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari in search of disqualification of TMC lawmaker Mukul Roy as a member of the Area at the floor of defection and restored the subject for contemporary attention.
Roy, a former BJP nationwide vice-president, had defected to the ruling TMC from BJP in June 2021 after profitable the meeting ballot in West Bengal on a BJP price tag. In February this 12 months, Banerjee had disregarded Adhikari’s petition of June 17, 2021 in search of Roy’s disqualification as an MLA underneath the anti-defection regulation for switching aspects after the election.
BJP MLA Ambika Roy had moved the HC in July ultimate 12 months difficult Roy’s election as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and prayed for the nomination of an opposition member to the publish as in keeping with custom.