West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday rejected a petition by a BJP legislatorseeking disqualification of Mukul Roy on the grounds that he defected to the Trinamool Congress from the BJP.
Mr. Roy, who contested and won from Krishangar Uttar on BJP ticket switched sides and joined the Trinamool a month after the Assembly election.He was appointed chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the State Assembly, a post usually reserved for a member of the Opposition benches.BJP MLA Ambika Roy had approached the Speaker seeking Mr. Mukul’s disqualification.
