The Bharatiya Janata Party will move two adjournment motions in West Bengal Assembly this week demanding immediate discussion on alleged violence during the panchayat polls and alleged atrocities against women in the state, said the party on Tuesday. Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said that the party expects Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay will allow the two motions so that the reported violence and rigging by the ruling TMC in the panchayat election is brought to the fore through debates.
"We will give the notice for both motions by this week so that it can be taken up at the earliest. Both issues are grave," he was quoted as saying by PTI.
Adhikari also said that the party will highlight how the administration worked in favour of one side and is officially put under scanner before the legislative assembly.
The other adjournment motion comes in the wake of stripping of two tribal women in Malda and the disrobing and parading of one BJP gram sabha candidate at Panchla in Howrah district on the rural poll date on July 8, he added.
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On being asked about Trinamool Congress’s decision to table a motion over Manipur violence, the LoP said they will oppose and seek quashing of the motion as the issue is already being handled by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the TMC hit back at BJP terming the saffron party’s allegations as a “pack of lies” and claiming that it is trying to make the situation in the state restive.
Asked to comment, TMC deputy chief whip Tapas Roy told reporters that BJP can table any motion but it will have to abide by the proper technical procedure. It will have to move the motion through the relevant House committee, which it did not.
BJP did not attend the all party meeting convened by the speaker on Monday, the first day of the monsoon session, to discuss legislative affairs during the ongoing session of the House.