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  • Trinamool MLA Krishna Kalyani prone to be appointed as Bengal meeting’s PAC chairman

    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.

  • Listening to of Mukul Roy disqualification case to start out once more in Meeting: West Bengal Speaker

    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.