Babul Supriyo, Bengal guv Dhankhar alternate barbs amid row over swearing-in
West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has entrusted deputy speaker Asish Banerjee to manage the oath of workplace to Supriyo. Asish Banerjee has refused to perform the obligation, pronouncing it's miles beside the point for him to carry out the obligation while the speaker is in workplace.
Kolkata: Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who gained the April 12 via way of means of-election from Kolkata’s Ballygunge meeting seat, can keep as a member of the legislative meeting (MLA) with out taking component in legislative paintings if the oath of workplace isn't always administered to him, West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar tweeted on Tuesday amid drama over the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief’s swearing-in ceremony.Kolkata: Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who gained the April 12 via way of means of-election from Kolkata’s Ballygunge meeting seat, can keep as a member of the legislative meeting (MLA) with out taking component in legislative paintings if the oath of workplace isn't always administered to him, West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar tweeted on Tuesday amid drama over the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief’s swearing-in ceremony.
Seven months after Dhankhar withdrew meeting speaker Biman Banerjee’s energy to manage the oath of workplace to participants of the country legislature; Supriyo has landed in a public debate.
Dhankhar, whose September 2021 order probably spread out every other the front withinside the long-jogging struggle among the country’s pinnacle constitutional authority and the authorities, has entrusted deputy speaker Asish Banerjee to manage the oath of workplace to Supriyo. Asish Banerjee has refused to perform the obligation, pronouncing it's miles beside the point for him to carry out the obligation while the speaker is in workplace.
The Ballygunge seat in south Kolkata fell vacant following the dying of minister Subrata Mukherjee in November ultimate year. Supriyo, who joined the TMC in September after being dropped from the Union authorities, gained the seat via way of means of over 20,000 votes.
“If I get any order from Raj Bhawan, I will write returned pronouncing I will now no longer be capable of administer the oath of workplace to Supriyo while the speaker is present,” Ashish Banerjee stated on Tuesday afternoon after the problem became mentioned at a assembly on the speaker’s chamber withinside the country meeting in which country parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee became present. It became determined that a letter might be despatched to Raj Bhawan, soliciting for the governor to manage the oath.
According to convention, it's miles the speaker who administers the oath to legislators even as the governor administers the oath of workplace to ministers. Raj Bhawan officers did now no longer touch upon the improvement until overdue evening.
The imbroglio began out after Supriyo wrote a letter to the speaker on April 27, urging him to “do the needful” to allow him to take oath as MLA.
While this became visible in political circles as a flow to permit Biman Banerjee carry out his obligation as speaker, Dhankhar issued an respectable order on April 30, empowering the deputy speaker to manage the oath of workplace.
“By distinctive feature of the energy vested in me via way of means of article 188 of the Constitution of India, Dr. Asish Banerjee, Deputy Speaker, WBLA is appointed because the character earlier than whom Shri Babul Supriyo, elected from 161-Ballygunge Assembly constituency, shall make and subscribe an oath,” the order stated.
Reacting to this, Asish Banerjee advised the media that for the reason that speaker is maintaining workplace it might be beside the point for him to step in. Supriyo additionally advised a segment of the media that an embarrassing scenario might have been avoided.
The depend escalated on Monday while Raj Bhawan issued a assertion.
“Sri Babul Supriyo is an MLA with impact from issuance of certificates of election on April sixteen, 2022. While he addressed no verbal exchange to the Governor, his verbal exchange to Honourable Speaker on April 27, after eleven days of getting been issued a certificates of election for taking oath is misconceived and together along with his tremendous revel in as Union minister and Parliamentarian, he's glaringly predicted to be conscious that the Honourable Speaker has no position or constitutional competency withinside the depend, until so assigned via way of means of the Governor. Sri Babul Supriyo drawing close the Honourable Speaker regards oath is jurisdictionally incorrect unwholesome optics,” the assertion stated.
Tweeting his respond to the governor on Monday, Supriyo wrote: “Sir, considering you've got got raised a inquiries to me withinside the public domain, it's miles my obligation to now no longer keep away from it however attend to it dutifully with utter humility, though, with my constrained know-how I don’t understand if the Constitution debars an oath-much less MLA to answer to HE Governor’s withinside the public domain.”
Dhankhar shot returned on Tuesday.
“Issue raised @SuPriyoBabul settled via way of means of Supreme Court in Pashupati Nath Sukul vs Nem Chandra Jain 1984 AIR 399- An elected member with out taking oath can participate in all non-legislative paintings. April sixteen Certificate of Election entitles him from that date as MLA to serve public,” the governor tweeted.
This caused a chain of 7 tweets from Supriyo.
“Hon’ble Sir, I am elated and honoured which you are devoting your valuable time for my ‘case’, if any. Sir, I simply desire to percentage a easy idea with you with the wish that, as a father figure, you will apprehend the emotion with which I write this..,” Supriyo wrote in his first tweet
“It’s a exclusive element Sir that I really gained way to the citizens of Ballygunge. Hence Sir, no matter what the Supreme Court judgement might also additionally say, I am already deep into running my manner ahead for my constituency, my oath notwithstanding…” Supriyo tweeted. He additionally connected a assertion Ashish Banerjee made refusing to manage the oath.
“Hon’ble Sir, Constitution is superb and so is your know-how of it however all empowerments of the charter additionally bestows us with the obligation to workout such energy with propriety and on this respect, pardon me Sir, I do sturdy experience that you may have been ‘Kinder’ “ Supriyo wrote in every other tweet, including that he became resting his case.
TMC leaders stated a comparable disaster arose in November and leader minister Mamata Banerjee needed to step in to make sure that TMC applicants who gained the Khardah, Dinhata, Santipur and Gosaba meeting seats in via way of means of-elections can be sworn in.
“The governor first stated he became delegating the energy to the deputy speaker as he might now no longer be capable of attend the ceremony. When Mamata Banerjee individually known as up Dhankhar, he agreed to empower the speaker to manage the oath,” a senior TMC chief stated on circumstance of anonymity.
Mamata Banerjee herself confronted a disaster in September after she gained the Bhawanipore seat in Kolkata in a via way of means of-ballot .
A notice from Raj Bhawan reached the workplace of the speaker some days earlier than the September 30 meeting via way of means of-ballot at Bhawanipur and polls at seats in Murshidabad district.
The letter referred to Section 188 of the Constitution which offers with oath or confirmation of lawmakers. “Every member of the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council of a State shall, earlier than taking his seat, make and subscribe earlier than the Governor, or a few character appointed in that behalf via way of means of him, an oath or confirmation in step with the shape set out for the reason withinside the Third Schedule,” it says.
Mamata Banerjee, who became defeated at Nandigram withinside the March-April polls in 2021, contested and gained her vintage Bhawanipore seat. To keep as leader minister, she had to be sworn in as a member of the meeting via way of means of November 4.
The governor’s choice to strip the speaker of his energy pressured the TMC to reschedule Banerjee’s oath taking, which became to begin with deliberate for October 4.
On October 1, the authorities wrote to Dhankhar, urging him to authorize the speaker to behavior the programme however Dhankhar sought a gazette notification at the Bhawanipore bypoll results. A gazette notification became issued and the governor agreed to manage the oath himself on October 7.
Speaker Biman Banerjee and the governor had in advance clashed over the latter’s request for a stay telecast of his speech on the meeting. The speaker did now no longer permit this. The speaker has additionally complained on numerous activities that Dhankhar interfered in his duties.
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