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The Economic Times
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Politics

Lok Sabha Speaker gives rebel TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay time till Sept 22 to reply to disqualification plea

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has granted time till September 22 to rebel TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), to file his reply to a disqualification petition moved against him under the Tenth Schedule.

According to a Lok Sabha Secretariat letter dated September 22, Joint Secretary Santosh Kumar informed Bandyopadhyay that his request for an extension of time for three weeks has been acceded to.

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