West Bengal Guv authorises Assembly deputy speaker to supervise swearing in of 2 TMC MLAs on Friday
Kolkata, Jul 4: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has authorised Deputy Speaker to oversee the swearing in of the two newly elected TMC MLAs in the Assembly on Friday, a senior Raj Bhavan official said.
"The Governor has authorised the Deputy Speaker Ashish Banerjee to conduct the swearing in ceremony at the Assembly tomorrow," the official told PTI on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Speaker Biman Banerjee summoned a special session of the Assembly starting from 2 pm on Friday, emphasising that the functioning of the House does not solely depend on the Governor.
Previously, the Speaker had sought the intervention of President Droupadi Murmu to resolve the oath-taking issue and accused the Governor of turning it into an ego battle.
The two MLAs — Rayat Hossain Sarkar and Sayantika Banerjee — were elected in the bypolls held concurrently with the Lok Sabha elections but declined to take oath at the Raj Bhavan.
They argued that convention dictates the Governor should assign either the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly to administer the oath in case of bypoll winners.
Last Wednesday, the Governor had invited them to take the oath at Raj Bhavan, which they declined citing procedural norms.
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Minor student stabs teacher to death in coaching centre classroom in Assam
Guwahati (PTI): A teacher of a coaching centre was knifed to death allegedly by one of his students inside a classroom in Assam’s Sivsagar district on Saturday, a police officer said.
The student, who is a minor, has been taken to the local police station in Sivsagar town, he added.
It is claimed that the teacher had scolded the class 11 student earlier in the day over some issue.
“We reached the coaching centre on receiving information of a stabbing incident. According to preliminary information, a student stabbed his teacher. There is a lot of blood in the classroom. The knife was also found there,” the officer said.
He said the teacher was taken to the hospital in a critical condition, where he was declared dead.
The officer said the incident happened in the last period of the day, when other teachers had already left.
“We have picked up the student. We don’t know yet what led to the incident. We are in the process of collecting the CCTV footage,” the officer added.
A classmate of the accused claimed that the teacher had scolded him over some matter earlier in the day.
The accused had left school and returned later, and when he entered the classroom, the teacher accosted him again. The student then attacked the teacher with a knife, the classmate claimed.
