Kolkata: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh Friday (May 7) mentioned that social gathering legislatures will boycott the election for the speaker in West Bengal meeting and its newly elected lawmakers will not attend the House until the post-poll violence within the state is managed.
The speaker’s election is slated for Saturday.
“We will not attend the speaker’s election tomorrow. We will also not attend the sessions of the House,” Ghosh informed reporters on the state meeting.
He additionally mentioned, “We will not come to the assembly till our MLAs get full protection. We will only come when our MLAs will be able to walk alongside our workers”.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Thursday mentioned that 16 individuals — each from Trinamool Congress and the BJP and one from the ISF had misplaced their lives within the post-poll violence within the state. The outcomes had been declared on May 2.
“We will expect that the government will take initiative to stop the violence and compensate those affected in the violence,” Ghosh added.
Banerjee had introduced that members of the family of every of these killed within the violence after the eight-phase election within the state will probably be given Rs 2 lakh every by the federal government as compensation.
A four-member fact-finding workforce of the union residence ministry is visiting the state to look into the explanations for the post-poll violence.
They met the West Bengal chief secretary, residence secretary and director basic of police on the state secretariat and met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday searching for a report on the violence.
The union residence ministry has requested Dhankar to give a report on the regulation and order state of affairs within the state, significantly the violence that happened following the declaration of the election end result.Â
