The Kolkata Police has registered an FIR against 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators on the basis of a complaint filed by an official of West Bengal Assembly for allegedly “insulting” the national anthem.
On Wednesday evening, as MLAs of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP were sitting in protests, and raising slogans and barbs at each other, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked her party MLAs to sing the national anthem. The allegation against the BJP legislators is that they did not stand up when the MLAs of the Treasury benches including the Chief Minister were singing the national anthem.
“It is very strange that an FIR is being lodged against our 12 MLAs because we were protesting on behalf of the people of Bengal who are suffering due to Mamata government’s alleged malpractices,” BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul told journalists. Senior officials of Kolkata Police visited the State Assembly on Thursday further triggering speculations relating to the case.
