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Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay on Thursday evening said he will decide on his future course of action in connection with the Calcutta High Court division bench’s decision to cancel Mukul Roy’s membership in the House.
On Thursday, a division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Mohammed Shabbar Rashidi of the Calcutta High Court not only canceled Roy’s House membership but also quashed the order passed by the Speaker before refusing to cancel Roy’s membership from the state assembly.
Responding to the order, the Speaker said on Thursday evening that after considering all aspects, he had earlier rejected the BJP’s petition to cancel Roy’s membership under the anti-defection law.
The Speaker, himself a lawyer by profession, said, “I will decide on my future course of action only after studying the order of the Calcutta High Court in detail.” He also reminded that the Speaker’s decision in Assembly matters is supreme.
Roy, a former general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2021 West Bengal elections and also successfully contested the elections as a BJP candidate in Krishnanagar (North) assembly constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal.
However, he joined the Trinamool Congress a few days after the results were declared and the Trinamool Congress came to power for the third consecutive time with an overwhelming majority. But he did not resign as a member of the state assembly and officially continued as a BJP MLA there.
The Assembly Speaker rejected BJP’s petition to cancel Roy’s assembly membership.
The Speaker said that since Roy was officially a BJP candidate, his membership could not be cancelled.
Subsequently, the BJP approached the Calcutta High Court seeking cancellation of Roy’s membership of the House as MLA from Krishnanagar (North) assembly constituency.
After a long hearing in the matter, finally on Thursday, the division bench of Justice Basak and Justice Rashidi of Calcutta High Court canceled Roy’s membership of the House.
–IANS
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