As 2 TMC MLAs resume dharna, Speaker tells Governor: Don’t make it ego issue
If he cannot come, he can authorize the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker to administer the oath, Mamata Banerjee said.
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Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose (File Photo)The dharna by two newly elected TMC MLAs on the Assembly premises demanding that they be administered the oath in the House rather than in Raj Bhavan as per Governor C V Ananda Bose’s invite entered its third day on Monday.
Baranagar MLA Sayantika Bandyopadhyay and Bhagabangola legislator Rayat Hossain Sarkar, who were elected in by-polls held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections, have refused to take oath in the Raj Bhavan and staged a dharna on the West Bengal assembly premises on Thursday and Friday.
On Monday, they resumed their sit-in in front of BR Ambedkar’s statue, demanding that Bose facilitate the oath-taking ceremony in the House, enabling them to perform their duties as MLAs.
Meanwhile, Speaker Biman Banerjee said: “We are urging the Governor to come to the Assembly and himself administer the oath of office to the two MLAs.” “This should not be treated as a matter of ego. I am again inviting the honourable Governor to come to the state legislature. I myself will receive him at the gate and all the decorum will be followed,” he said.
If he cannot come, he can authorize the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker to administer the oath, Banerjee said.
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