Fear of BJP’s Ashok Lahiri makes Mamata break norms and appoint Mukul Roy Public Accounts Committee Chief

In a growth which speaks to the concern of the ruling TMC authorities of West Bengal, Mukul Roy, who not too long ago joined the Trinamool Congress after successful the Assembly polls from Krishnanagar North on a BJP ticket, was made the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman on the final day of the Budget Session within the West Bengal Assembly on Friday. The TMC has damaged precedent and made the House Speaker appoint Mukul Roy to the vital submit so as to reportedly cover its misappropriation of public funds. Historically, an opposition chief is made the Public Accounts Committee chairman – so as to preserve the federal government in verify.“This is the first time in history that the opposition party has not been given the PAC chairman’s post. The Speaker (Biman Bandhopadhyay) has done this intentionally to hide misappropriation of funds. Had BJP’s Ashok Lahiri been made the PAC chairman, all the misdoings would have come to light,” stated Leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari.BJP had been rooting for the Former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, Ashok Lahiri to be appointed because the PAC chairman. Defending the choice of the Speaker, Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Saugata Roy stated, “There is no rule which says an opposition leader has to be made the PAC chairman. It is only a convention. The Speaker is the sole authority to select the chairman. He has done the right thing.”According to Times Now, Roy’s appointment to the submit of PAC chairman was determined a lot earlier when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had brazenly lent her assist to Roy and stated that the Speaker’s choice can be closing on this matter.Only not too long ago, after the state funds was tabled within the West Bengal meeting, Ashok Lahiri had sought an inventory of the schemes, which fall beneath central, state and concurrent lists and had urged the state authorities to come back out with the record of the beneficiaries of all of the schemes. “The state government should come out with the details of the Centre-sponsored schemes which are in force in Bengal,” Lahiri stated. He additionally sought particulars concerning the eligibility lists of the candidates in numerous welfare schemes and stated there are greater than 47 schemes.Lahiri additionally added that the accounts of the state authorities have to be audited by the CAG in order to mirror the true monetary image of the varied departments in West Bengal. Due to his stringent strategy of getting the state accounts audited, it appears the TMC authorities received rattled and as an alternative appointed Mukul Roy – a political chameleon because the PAC chairman.