If the speaker of West Bengal Assembly can be forced to decide on disqualification proceeding of defecting MLAs, it would rectify a systemic rot in West Bengal. The anti defection law had essentially been nullified in WB courtesy TMC thus far.
Trinamulis would regularly induce elected MLAs of other parties to defect, until 2021, those parties would be Cong & CPIM. When the party chiefs would move petition to disqualify under anti defection law, the TMC speaker Biman Roy won’t decide.
Manas Bhuiiyan is the worst example. Elected on Cong ticket, defected to TMC. The speaker made him head of PAC considering him as Cong member, But in reality he had moved to TMC. Then LoP Abdul Mannan from Cong appealed to disqualify under anti defection law.
Speaker didn’t decide on Mannan’s petition even after 21 hearings! Mannan didn’t go to court because of “setting” between Begum and Cong central leadership.
Mukul Roy was Manas Bhuyian redux. But this time the LoP is Suvendu Adhikari. He went to court. HC had ordered Biman Roy to decide by October. Biman Roy went to SC. The SC has nudged him to follow HC’s order.
Suvendu likes to win. He would use every resource at his disposal to oust the Trinamulis. So far BJP central leadership hasnt restrained his moves against Trinamuli legal abuses. Though they have done setting on other fronts, eg, Mamata special bypoll, EB-CBI against Bhaipomoni.
Factual correction: It was Ambika Roy, BJP MLA from Kalyani who had filed a PIL in Calcutta HC against appointing Mukul Roy as PAC chair, not LoP Suvendu Adhikari. But the PIL has Suvendu’s imprint on it.

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