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Bengal governor dubs Speaker administering oath to 2 TMC MLAs ‘violation of Constitution’, writes to President Murmu | India News
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, stating that the assembly speaker administering oath to two newly elected TMC MLAs was a “violation of the Constitution”, a Raj Bhavan official told news agency PTI.
Bose wrote the letter to the President, hours after speaker Biman Banerjee administered the oath to two TMC legislators, instead of the deputy speaker, who was authorised by the governor for the job.
“The Governor has written to President Droupadi Murmu about the Speaker’s constitutional impropriety. The governor, in his letter, has also said that the Bengal Speaker administering oath to two MLAs at the state Assembly is a violation of the Constitution,” the Raj Bhavan official told PTI.
Amid the ongoing standoff over the swearing-in of newly elected MLAs, governor CV Ananda Bose had authorised assembly deputy speaker Ashish Banerjee to administer oath to Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.
Bose’s six-page statement on the issue came within hours of speaker Biman Banerjee announcing a special session of the Bengal assembly on Friday, asserting that “the assembly is not helpless in the hands of the governor”.
Bose said he had taken the decision on July 2 in New Delhi considering the requests made by the MLAs.
Article 188 of the Constitution mandates that newly elected MLAs will have to take oath in the governor’s presence or any person appointed by him. An official said the rules of business in Bengal assembly, Chapter II, say that a member who has not already taken oath following Article 188 of the Constitution may do so at the commencement of a sitting of the House or at any other time of the sitting of the House as the Speaker directs.
Bose wrote the letter to the President, hours after speaker Biman Banerjee administered the oath to two TMC legislators, instead of the deputy speaker, who was authorised by the governor for the job.
“The Governor has written to President Droupadi Murmu about the Speaker’s constitutional impropriety. The governor, in his letter, has also said that the Bengal Speaker administering oath to two MLAs at the state Assembly is a violation of the Constitution,” the Raj Bhavan official told PTI.
Amid the ongoing standoff over the swearing-in of newly elected MLAs, governor CV Ananda Bose had authorised assembly deputy speaker Ashish Banerjee to administer oath to Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.
Bose’s six-page statement on the issue came within hours of speaker Biman Banerjee announcing a special session of the Bengal assembly on Friday, asserting that “the assembly is not helpless in the hands of the governor”.
Bose said he had taken the decision on July 2 in New Delhi considering the requests made by the MLAs.
Article 188 of the Constitution mandates that newly elected MLAs will have to take oath in the governor’s presence or any person appointed by him. An official said the rules of business in Bengal assembly, Chapter II, say that a member who has not already taken oath following Article 188 of the Constitution may do so at the commencement of a sitting of the House or at any other time of the sitting of the House as the Speaker directs.
