The BJP on Tuesday said it will approach the Kolkata High Court next week for an early disposal and time-bound hearing of BJP’s objection to the appointment of its former national vice-president Mukul Roy as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Leader of the Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari told reporters that Rai, who had come to the Trinamool Congress office a few days after he was elected as the BJP MLA from Krishnanagar North, now has a month’s time to respond to the allegations from Speaker Biman Banerjee. Has asked The saffron party that he has been illegally appointed as the PAC president and should be disqualified under the anti-defection law.
Roy, who was asked by the Speaker to respond to the BJP’s allegations against him, on Tuesday sent a letter to the Speaker’s office requesting that he be given a month’s time to do so, citing ill health. An official of the Assembly Secretariat said that he was given time.
“Roy’s letter is flawed. He only said that he is unwell and needs time till mid-September to present his case. But that is not enough. The Speaker’s office agreed to the request. We are thus unsure. Can’t wait to stretch. We will approach the High Court next week for the court’s direction in this matter. We are consulting lawyers,” the official said.
Referring to Roy’s remarks to the media in the assembly premises that he was a BJP MLA but was ready to work for the TMC to increase the party’s base in Tripura, the official said, “I had discussed him that day itself. commented.”
“TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is the only person who makes it clear which party Mukul Roy belongs to. He and his nephew Abhishek Banerjee had hugged him with great fanfare at the Trinamool Congress office sometime back.
Commenting on this, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said, “Suvendu should first state whether the anti-defection law should not be used against his father, Shishir Adhikari, who is yet to step down as an MP. Is. He was elected on a TMC ticket and promised loyalty to Amit Shah before the assembly elections.
After Roy was appointed as the PAC president in the first week of July, BJP legislators staged a walkout from the assembly and then submitted a memorandum to the Speaker demanding his removal.
The saffron party MPs cited documents to support their demand, a video clip of Roy’s press meet at the TMC office and a screenshot of his tweet after returning to the TMC.
Roy, who was with the TMC since its inception, had quit the party in 2018 following differences and joined the BJP. He was nominated as a BJP candidate in the West Bengal Assembly elections and won. But he returned to the Trinamool Congress, which the party called ‘ghar wapsi’.
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