Suvendu Adhikari suspended from West Bengal Assembly

The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, was on Tuesday suspended from the winter session of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for making “objectionable remarks” against Speaker Biman Banerjee.

This is the second time the BJP MLA from Nandigram has been suspended from the House since he became the Leader of the Opposition. On Tuesday, the Assembly was debating a resolution under Rule 169 on the subject “How the Constitution of the country is under threat”, when the Speaker gave directions that certain portions of the speech by BJP MLA Sankar Ghosh be expunged.

The Siliguri BJP MLA had questioned how BJP MLAs who had defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) could still occupy their posts without resigning as MLAs. Mr. Adhikari raised objections to the Speaker expunging portions of the speech by the BJP MLA, and descended to the Well of the House with several BJP MLAs.