Bengal politics Bengal Guv slams Speaker Biman Banerjee for administering Sayantika Banerjee, Reyat Hossian's oath
Kolkata/IBNS: Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Friday slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress and Speaker Biman Banerjee after two of its leaders Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar took oath as MLAs on Friday.
Banerjee and Sarkar won bypolls from the Baranagar and Bhagwangola constituencies, the results of which were declared on June 5.
Their oaths, which had been pending, became the focus of a bitter and prolonged stand-off between the Trinamool and the Governor's office.
The oaths were eventually administered this evening by Bidhan Sabha Speaker Biman Banerjee. After the ceremony, Trinamool legislators raised the 'Jai Bangla' slogan in the House.
মোর নাম এই বলে খ্যাত হোক আমি তোমাদেরই লোক।
— Sayantika Banerjee (@sayantika12) July 5, 2024
অবশেষে দীর্ঘ প্রতীক্ষার অবসান। বরানগরবাসীর প্রতিনিধি হিসেবে আজ শপথ গ্রহণ করলাম মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের দেখানো পথে বরানগরের উন্নয়ন ত্বরান্বিত করার, শপথ গ্রহণ করলাম আমাদের মহান সংবিধান যা আজ বিপন্ন তাকে রক্ষা করার। pic.twitter.com/XzkHXHxPiH
Bose has declared that the Speaker had "defied Constitutional prescription" by administering their oaths despite the Governor's office appointing his deputy, Ashish Banerjee to do so.
However, Banerjee declined to do so, pointing out the Speaker had precedence.
Bose said a report will be sent to President Droupadi Murmu "about the Constitutional impropriety of the Speaker in administering the oath to the two newly elected MLAs".
"This Constitutional transgression has been done in spite of the Governor appointing the Deputy Speaker as the person before whom the two newly elected MLAs shall take their oaths."
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