BJP lawmakers raise Ram slogans in Assembly
The Left and the Congress staged walkouts before Mamata rose to read the vote-on-account speech
Chaotic scenes dubbed “unprecedented” by some veterans in the treasury benches unfolded in the Assembly on Friday as chief minister Mamata Banerjee tried placing the vote-on-account for poll-bound Bengal.
BJP lawmakers rushed to the well of the House with “Jai Shri Ram” slogans to protest state finance minister Amit Mitra’s absence.
Mitra has been unwell, sources said.
As Mamata rose to read the vote-on-account speech, BJP members led by their legislature party leader Manoj Tigga came to the well and started sloganeering, demanding answers on why the chief minister was replacing Mitra.