Bengal Speaker rejigs seating order of 4 ‘insecure’ MLAs

Kolkata: Seats of four MLAs have been rearranged in the Bengal assembly, days after they complained to the speaker that they were feeling insecure ever since the leader of the opposition threatened them with “income tax raids” — and also allegedly issued “life threats” — on the floor of the House.MLAs Krishna Kalyani,

Soumen Roy

, Tanmoy Ghosh and Biswajit Das, who had switched to Trinamool Congress after being elected on BJP tickets last year, were earlier allotted seats on the opposition bench in a scattered manner. Now, they have been reallocated seats in a row on the same bench following speaker Biman Banerjee’s instructions. “We have been feeling insecure since

Suvendu Adhikari

(leader of the opposition) threatened us with I-T raids and dire consequences on the assembly floor. It had never happened before,” said

Raiganj MLA Krishna Kalyani

on Monday. Kaliaganj MLA Roy said: “The new seating arrangement has come as a reassurance against such threats.”Dubbing it “mischief by a group of turncoats”, BJP chief whip Manoj Tigga held that people who elected these MLAs would take them to task. “Everyone knows that they were elected on BJP tickets and that they switched to Trinamool later. People in these constituencies didn’t vote for Trinamool. Now, people will take them to task,” Tigga said.
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