TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee has been suspended from the Lok Sabha. He is accused of misbehaving with women MPs. After this, Banerjee described the rebel MPs who joined NCPI as ‘traitors’ and said that they have no support base in West Bengal.
New Delhi [भारत]July 22 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kalyan Banerjee, who was suspended from the Lok Sabha for the rest of the monsoon session after complaining to the Speaker about alleged inappropriate behavior and foul language against women MPs, hit out at the party’s rebel MPs who joined the NCPI and said they have no support in West Bengal.
He termed the rebel party MPs as “traitors”. He told reporters, “What will they get by suspending me from here?… This is a party of barely twenty people. They (20 TMC rebel MPs) held a meeting in Kolkata after one and a half months. They don’t even have twenty voters. They have nothing. Not a single person has voted for them in West Bengal… They are all traitors and dishonest people… The government will fall after a year.”
Action taken on allegations of misbehavior
Earlier, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal moved a motion in the Lok Sabha demanding suspension of Banerjee for the remaining part of the monsoon session of Parliament. The motion was moved after TDP leader KP Tenneti, who was in the Speaker’s chair, informed the House that the Speaker had received a written complaint on Banerjee’s alleged conduct and language. After this, the House accepted the proposal amid sloganeering by the opposition members regarding their demands.
The complaint alleged that Banerjee displayed “unprecedented behaviour” while functioning in Parliament and “verbally abused NCPI members and minister Bhupendra Yadav in her misogynistic manner”.
The monsoon session of Parliament began on Monday. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla approved the arrangement of separate sitting for 20 MPs who broke away from TMC. However, the merger of rebel TMC MPs with NCPI has not yet been approved by the Speaker. (ANI)
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