The Secretary of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly has started taking accounts of the witnesses in connection with the incident of ransacking that took place inside the Assembly on February 8.
The Secretary of the Assembly summoned eight MLAs, four each from the ruling party and the Opposition in connection with the incident. Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra, Tapas Roy, Samir Chakraborty and Shilbhadra Dutta had given witness. Congress MLAs Dulal Bar, Apurba Sarkar, Nepal Mahato and CPI(M) MLA Khagen Murmu were also asked to give witness to the incident in which the Opposition party leaders ransacked a portion of the Assembly.
The opposition party in the Assembly, however, alleged that Congress MLA Bar and CPI(M) Khagen Murmu were not present at the Assembly at the time of the incident. Left Front and Congress MLAs staged agitation inside the Assembly on Friday protesting against the suspension of Opposition leader Abdul Mannan.
Mannan was suspended by Speaker Biman Banerjee on February 8 for two days for stalling the House proceedings but he continued to protest, thus, leading to him being Marshalled out. Mannan continued protest holding placards against the government for bringing in the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Bill 2017 to curb the tendency to destroy public and private properties during riots.