Hearing of Mukul Roy disqualification case to start once more in Assembly: West Bengal Speaker

By 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 earlier dismissed a petition on it, stated on Monday. Assembly sources stated the listening to within the case is prone to start this Friday. “The honourable court has sent a reminder. I will look into it legally. I will call both parties and hold a hearing,” Banerjee informed reporters right here.

Calcutta High Court had final week put aside the speaker’s order dismissing a petition by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari searching for disqualification of TMC lawmaker Mukul Roy as a member of the House on the bottom of defection and restored the matter for contemporary consideration.

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 ticket. In February this yr, Banerjee had dismissed Adhikari’s petition of June 17, 2021 searching for Roy’s disqualification as an MLA underneath the anti-defection regulation for switching sides after the election.

BJP MLA Ambika Roy had moved the HC in July final yr difficult Roy’s election as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and prayed for the nomination of an opposition member to the submit as per custom.