Trinamool MP Bandyopadhyay wants to know why the state government has been repeatedly targeted
Irked at multiple questions being asked on the prevailing law and order situation in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress on Tuesday raised the issue with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Om Birla as well as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, M Venkaiah Naidu.
In a spate of incidents of political violence since Lok Sabha elections, dozens of people have been killed or grievously injured in West Bengal.
In his letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay claimed that Rule 41 (xiii) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha regarding conditions of admissibility of questions is being violated in the House.
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- In a spate of incidents of political violence since Lok Sakha elections, dozens of people have been killed or grievously injured in West Bengal
- As per a rule 41 (xiii) of business in Lok Sabha, a question shall not repeat in substance questioned
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The said rule states that a "question shall not repeat in substance questions already answered".
"However, three questions (numbers 1646, 1732 and 1749) have been allowed in the Lok Sabha regarding political violence during 2019 general elections... Ten advisories have gone to the state government in 10 days. This is butchering of the parliamentary democratic process.
Why is the Bengal government being targeted in such manner? We strongly protest this and request you to kindly look into it," Bandyopadhyay said in his letter to the Speaker.
In a similar letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman, TMC member Derek O'Brien claimed that four questions on the same topic had been allowed.
"The same question is not normally allowed to be raised on the floor of this august House again and again with minor variations. But the law-and-order situation in West Bengal has been raised multiple times in different forms during this session," said O'Brien.
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