The saffron celebration Thursday sought cancellation of Mukul Roy’s nomination for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and urged the Meeting secretary to reject his candidature as his identify has not been proposed by the BJP Legislature celebration and the TMC is ineligible to advance his nomination as he has been elected on a BJP ticket. Roy was among the many 20 MLAs who filed nominations for memberships of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal meeting on Wednesday amid speculations that he could also be appointed its chairman.
The TMC has submitted 14 names and the BJP has put ahead six names. Roy featured within the checklist of 20. Roy, formally a BJP MLA from Krishnanagar Uttar, converted to the TMC final week however didn’t resign from the meeting or was disqualified below the anti-defection legislation.
“We have now submitted a letter to the meeting secretary objecting Mukul Roy’s nomination for the PAC membership. In keeping with the meeting guidelines, both his identify needs to be submitted by the TMC or the BJP.
“The checklist does not state on whose behalf Mukul Roy has filed nomination,” a senior BJP MLA mentioned. Roy’s identify has been proposed by impartial member Ruden Sada Lepcha and TMC MLA Tarun Kumar Maity.
Citing Rule no-302 of the Guidelines Process and Conduct of Enterprise within the West Bengal Legislative Meeting, the letter by the BJP famous that the norm of electing members to the PAC is predicated on the Precept of Proportional Illustration. “Proportional Illustration means election of the PAC members from amongst the proportional ratio of the events.
The BJP has not advisable his identify. “The TMC can also’t advocate his names as he has been elected on a BJP ticket. Therefore, his nomination needs to be cancelled,” one other BJP MLA mentioned.
Reacting to the event, TMC chief whip Nirmal Ghosh had mentioned the letter by the BJP neither has any authorized nor constitutional sanctity. “The BJP leaders do not know the principles and proceedings of the Home. When the nominations for the PAC membership are submitted, it’s performed as members of the home and never as a member of any celebration,” Ghosh mentioned.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday mentioned that her celebration is supporting Roy. Stating that Roy “is a member of the BJP”, she mentioned that although anyone can file nomination its the Speaker who has the authority to take the ultimate name.
“Anyone can file nomination for public accounts committee (PAC). And Mukul Roy who has filed the nomination is a member of the BJP. “The place is the issue? He has bought the help of Binay Tamang’s celebration and we can even help him. Its choice of the speaker,” Banerjee instructed reporters on the secretariat.
“And if there’s voting, we are going to win. We have now gained energy within the state after individuals voted for us. We are going to use the identical to get the suitable particular person elected (for the PAC),” the Trinamool Congress supremo mentioned.
In the meantime, in response to sources, all of the 20 nominations, together with that of Roy, have been accepted after the scrutiny. Nonetheless, the checklist will probably be formally introduced later.
The BJP legislature celebration is apprehensive that the submit of the PAC chairman, whose choice is the speaker’s prerogative, would possibly go to Roy as there have been cases when Congress MLAs switching over to TMC have been appointed to the necessary posts, celebration sources mentioned. “As per the norm, the PAC chairman submit goes to the opposition celebration. However, within the final meeting, we noticed how Manas Bhunia and Sankar Singh held the submit regardless of crossing over to the TMC and never resigning as Congress MLAs.
“The speaker then had cited that they’re formally opposition MLAs,” a state BJP chief mentioned. The apprehensions gained momentum after Mamata Banerjee, throughout a press convention, mentioned Roy is a “BJP member” and the TMC is able to face voting on the ground of the home on the difficulty of PAC chairman.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari mentioned Roy’s nomination doesn’t matter as he would stop to exist as a home member below the anti-defection legislation.
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