Via PTI
KOLKATA: Raiganj’s BJP MLA Krishna Kalyani, who joined the Trinamool Congress ultimate yr, may be appointed because the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal meeting, assets stated on Monday.
The submit fell vacant after senior TMC chief Mukul Roy, who had gained the 2021 meeting polls on a BJP price tag and later joined the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, submitted his resignation because the chairman of the committee ultimate week, bringing up in poor health well being.
“Krishna Kalyani will in all probability be appointed as the following PAC chairman. An order and notification in regards to the similar can be out both the next day or the day after,” a senior meeting respectable stated.
Kalyani, a TMC chief in Uttar Dinajpur district, had joined the BJP ahead of the meeting elections and was once fielded from the Raiganj seat.
Alternatively, he surrender the BJP in October ultimate yr to go back to the TMC.
He didn’t renounce as a legislator regardless of being requested to take action through the saffron birthday party.
Speaker Biman Banerjee had appointed Roy as PAC chairman in July ultimate yr, whilst the opposition BJP had sought after its MLA Ashok Lahiri to move the committee.
Banerjee, in Would possibly, rejected Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari’s plea for disqualifying Roy as MLA, pronouncing he didn’t in finding advantage within the argument.
Roy, who gained the Krishnanagar Uttar constituency in Nadia district on a BJP price tag within the state election ultimate yr, defected to the ruling TMC in June 2021.
He additionally didn’t renounce as a legislator.
On earlier events between 2016 and 2021, Congress MLAs Manas Bhunia and Sankar Singh, who, like Roy had joined the TMC with out resigning as legislators, have been appointed because the chairman of PAC.