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  • Bengal’s new PAC leader skips assembly; BJP threatens to transport court docket over appointment

    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.

  • 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.