Bengal Assembly to discuss home department budget after 15 years
During the previous Trinamool Congress government, the home department's budget was almost always passed through the guillotine procedure.
During the previous Trinamool Congress government, the home department's budget was almost always passed through the guillotine procedure.
Suvendu Adhikari said the legislature should embrace digital technology across its operations and improve its physical infrastructure.
Sources said the BJP plans to gather signatures after the second phase of the Budget session begins on July 17 and subsequently file nominations.
The CID approached the Bankshal Court seeking permission to obtain handwriting specimens from TMC MLAs Baharul Islam, Subhashis Das and Arup Roy. The court approved the request, paving the way for examination of samples.
West Bengal Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said he would initiate legal action against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, asserting that the time given to her to respond to a defamation notice had expired without any reply.
The R G Kar rape and murder incident reverberates in the Assembly as the BJP MLAs, led by the Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly, staged a protest demanding the resignation of the chief minister.
Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari today lodged a complaint of physical assault on him by Trinamul MLA from Purbashtali Tapan Chatterjee. He wrote a complaint to Speaker Biman Banerjee.
State BJP leaders, however, refused to make any comment on the absence of their legislators on the occasion.
Finally, after an hour-long drama at 2.59 pm, the governor budged and the deadlock was lifted after he acceded to the demand of reading the first and last line of his speech much to the relief of the ruling dispensation and marked the commencement of the budget session.
Arguments erupted after Adhikari, who had defeated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by a slim margin in the recently-concluded Assembly polls, raised the issue of Banerjee's defeat in the elections in his speech.
