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Left Front, Trinamool members fight in
Bengal assembly, three hurt
Tuesday December 11, 2012 05:46:12 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The West
Bengal assembly Tuesday witnessed unruly scenes as the Left Front
and the ruling Trinamool Congress members indulged in fist
fighting, resulting in three legislators being injured and
hospitalised and three others suspended.
The fracas broke out when the Left Front moved an adjournment
motion over the state government's alleged failure to curb chit
funds in the state.
After assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee rejected the plea for an
adjournment motion, lawmakers from the two sides came to blows.
Following the scuffle, the house was adjourned.
Three Left legislators - Amjad Hussain, Nazibul Haq and Sushanta
Besra - have been suspended by the speaker for the day.
While the opposition Left Front accused Trinamool legislators of
starting the fight and claimed one of its members was injured, the
ruling party rubbished the claims and asserted that two of its
lawmakers were injured due to the "goondaism" of the Left.
"Time and again we have been denied our demand of admitting an
adjournment motion on important issues involving public
importance. Since the Trinamool government has come to power, all
our adjournment motions have been rejected for discussion, mostly
on flimsy grounds," Leader of Opposition and Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Surjya Kanta Mishra said.
Mishra said his party member Gouranga Chattopadhyay had to be
hospitalised after being assaulted allegedly by Trinamool members
in the assembly.
"Not only Chattopadhyay was assaulted but also our women
legislator Debolina Hembram was manhandled and filthy language was
used against her," said Mishra.
"I was repeatedly hit on the head with a heavy object," said
Chattopadhyay before being wheeled inside the state-run SSKM
Hospital.
Trinamool Congress leader and the state's Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Partha Chatterjee rubbished Mishra's claim, and in turn
said two of his party members Mahmuda Hossain and Pulak Roy were
severely assaulted by CPI-M members and they had to be
hospitalised.
"The CPI-M has been creating trouble inside the house for the last
few days. Amjad Hussain, Nazimul Haq and Sushanta Besra not only
physically assaulted the speaker but also used filthy language
against him. They have also injured two of our members who are now
hospitalised with serious injuries," said Chatterjee.
"The CPI-M's goondaism is politically motivated. They are doing
this on purpose as they want to malign the government. They are
frustrated with the success of the government. That is why they
are venting their ire on our members," said Chatterjee.
The Left Front has called the suspension of its members
"unconstitutional" and has sat on a demonstration outside the
assembly, demanding their suspension be revoked.
"The suspension of three of our members is against the principles
of natural justice and the constitution because they have not been
given an opportunity to be heard. They have been punished without
being able to defend themselves," Mishra said.
"The decision of the speaker to suspend our members was influenced
by the minister of parliamentary affairs (Partha Chatterjee),
which is unacceptable and goes against the law of the land. We
will continue to protest until their suspensions are revoked,"
added Mishra.
"Some of our members were crying. We all were apprehensive of our
security, we have walked out for the day. It is really surprising
that the temple of democracy has been polluted and desecrated,"
Congress leader Manas Bhunia said.
A delegation of Congress legislators led by Bhunia and another of
Left Front members led by CPI-M's Anisur Rahman will meet Governor
M.K. Narayanan at Raj Bhavan Tuesday to apprise him of the
happenings of the day inside the assembly.
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