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The Lok Sabha Privileges Committee on Thursday summoned the chief secretary of West Bengal and other senior officers on a complaint filed by BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar over alleged “misconduct, brutality and life-threatening injuries” to him.
The Balurghat MP sustained injuries when he fell on the bonnet of a van during a scuffle with the police at Taki in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday while trying to march towards Sandeshkhali where people have been protesting against a local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader.
The committee has summoned Chief Secretary Bhagwati Prasad Gopalika, Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar, North 24 Parganas District Magistrate Sharad Kumar Dwivedi, Basirhat SP Hossain Mehdi Rehman, and Additional SP Partha Ghosh to appear before it on February 19.
Majumdar, who is also the West Bengal unit chief of the BJP, had complained to the parliamentary committee about breach of privilege as an MP.
Reacting to the Lok Sabha panel’s summons to the top officials of the West Bengal government, TMC leader Shantanu Sen said, “The whole country saw how Sukanta Majumdar did a drama during the BJP’s protest. When our leader Abhishek Banerjee and our MPs and MLAs went to Union Minister Niranjan Jyoti’s office and were heckled by Delhi Police, then what steps did this parliamentary committee take?”
Meanwhile, Majumdar, who was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata, was shifted out of the ICU of a neurology department. He was also served solid food, sources said.
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