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  • BJP MLAs stage protest in Bengal Assembly on CAG report, allege “misappropriation” of MGNREGA funds

    Kolkata: The BJP MLAs on Tuesday tried to move an adjournment and demanded discussion on CAG report in the West Bengal assembly, which was turned down by the Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay on Tuesday. Following the refusal, BJP MLAs staged a protest on the CAG report and alleged “misappropriation” of MGNREGA funds.

    “We were not even allowed to read our adjournment motion. We were not allowed to even discuss the CAG report in the assembly. The CAG report is not about advance adjustment as said by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee but also finds mention of multiple fraud accounts which have been discovered,” Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari told mediapersons.

    Meanwhile, West Bengal unit of BJP has decided to meet Governor CV Ananda Bose on CAG report issue on March 9 and urge him to send recommendations to CAG for filing FIR against state government on the issue.Trinamool Supremo Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently on the CAG report issue and nonsubmission of utilization letter, which was raised by BJP state President Sukanta Majumdar. The BJP on January 31 cited a CAG report to allege that “mother of all scams” to the tune of about Rs 2 lakh crore had taken place in the Trinamool Congressruled West Bengal.

    The Speaker turned down the demand stating that the issue has no justification to discuss in the House, following which BJP MLAs protested inside the House.

    Antigovernment slogans were shouted by the BJP MLAs Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, Chief Whip Manoj Tigga and Siligurij legislator Shankar Ghosh among others. They were carrying placards and protested outside the South gate of the assembly.“CAG reports has brought out details of many fake accounts, fund diversion issues, central government guidelines violation, misappropriation of funds. It shows corruption and theft of Trinamool Congress government,” Adhikari said. State Finance Minister (MoS) Chandrima Bhattacharya said, “There is no scope of discussion on CAG in the assembly. The report is from 2003 to 2021. The central government did not receive Utilization Certificates (UC) but have released funds. How were the funds released? How come the Center announced that Bengal was the topmost performer in MGNREGA? And now the funds have been blocked.”

    After hearing that Mamata Banerjee will pay 21 lakh workers under MGNREGA, BJP has lost their minds and made all these allegations,” Bhattacharya said.

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  • Bengal LoP, suspended from meeting, protests after being prevented from coming into chamber

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who has been suspended from the West Bengal Assembly for the complete session until the House is prorogued, on Monday staged a sit-in protest on the premises after he was prevented from coming into his chamber.

    Adhikari, together with 4 different BJP MLAs, was suspended by the speaker from the meeting after legislators from the saffron get together and the TMC got here to blows contained in the House on the final day of the finances session in March over the Birbhum killings.

    Prorogation is discontinuing a session of Parliament or a Legislative Assembly with out dissolving it. When Adhikari, the Nandigram MLA, got here to the meeting, he was prevented from coming into his chamber citing the suspension discover.

    Infuriated, he and another BJP legislators sat on an illustration close to the statue of B R Ambedkar on the premises. “This is autocratic. For the first time, an LoP has been stopped from entering his chamber in the assembly. The entire country knows how I was suspended in an undemocratic manner. As I am not allowed to enter my chamber, I would carry out my official work from this spot every day. This will be my office till I get to enter my chamber,” he informed reporters.

    Speaker Biman Banerjee couldn’t be contacted for a remark.

    Senior TMC chief and get together chief whip within the meeting, Nirmal Ghosh, mentioned Adhikari ought to cease making a scene as he’s nicely conscious {that a} suspended member will not be allowed to enter the meeting premises.

    “Any member who has been suspended is generally not allowed to enter the assembly premises. He (Adhikari) is very well aware of it. He is just doing drama to get some mileage in the media,” he mentioned.

    Adhikari, together with BJP legislators Dipak Burman, Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Tigga and Narahari Mahato, was on March 28 suspended for the complete session until the House is prorogued.

    The House had plunged into chaos on that day as MLAs of each side engaged in fisticuffs, resulting in the hospitalisation of a number of the legislators.

    The incident occurred after BJP MLAs trooped to the nicely, demanding a press release by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the “worsening” regulation and order state of affairs within the wake of Birbhum killings, through which 9 individuals (eight at the moment) died of burn accidents after assailants threw petrol bombs at a number of homes in Bogtui village close to Rampurhat on March 21 following the homicide of native TMC chief Bhadu Sheikh.

    Even because the speaker tried to pacify the BJP MLAs, who continued sloganeering, a confrontation broke out with legislators of the treasury bench which finally led to the ugly scuffle.

    The incident introduced again recollections of opposition Left and ruling TMC legislators buying and selling blows in December 2012 on the ground of the House, resulting in accidents on each side.