Kolkata: Six BJP MLAs, together with Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, had been suspended from the West Bengal meeting over staging protests within the Home in view of unrest in Sandeshkhali.
In addition to Adhikari, Agnimitra Pal, Mihir Goswami, Bankim Ghosh, Tapasi Mondal and Shankar Ghosh had been suspended for the remaining half of the present session or 30 days, whichever is earlier.
For the reason that starting of the query hour, BJP legislators began shouting slogans in opposition to the TMC authorities for the current unrest in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, which has snowballed into a significant political controversy.
The BJP legislators squatted on the ground of the Home, shouting slogans which led to a ruckus contained in the meeting.
Speaker Biman Banerjee then allowed Trinamool Congress MLA Sobhandeb Chatterjee to maneuver a movement for the suspension of the BJP legislators.
Subsequently, the BJP MLAs had been suspended by the Speaker.
A lot of girls in Sandeshkhali held protests in the previous couple of days, alleging that native TMC chief Sheikh Shajahan and his “gang” captured swathes of land by drive, apart from sexually harassing them.
They demanded the arrest of Shajahan who has been absconding since final month after a staff of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that went to raid his home in an alleged ration rip-off was attacked by a mob.
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