Babulal Marandi says Speaker under Pressure over chair of Leader of Opposition

Ranchi: Leader of the legislature wing of the BJP Babulal Marandi claimed that Speaker Ravindranath Mahto was under pressure over making him the Leader of Opposition and if that was the case he can go ahead and make any person from the ruling side the leader and give him the seat.

“Henceforth no uproar will be held inside the house over this issue,” he said adding that since February 28 when the Budget Session has commenced from that day itself the chair of Leader of Opposition has been demanded by the party.

Adding further he said that on February 11 a decision was unanimously taken to merge the JVM-P with the BJP following which the merger took place on February 17.

He said that after the merger took place the MLAs of the BJP elected him as their leader of legislature wing and an information in this regard was also given to the Vidhan Sabha. The election commission also on March 6 gave its approval on the merger and now the decision was to be taken by the speaker. Mr Marandi said that the speaker and decide whenever he wants but now MLA of the party will come into the well of the house over the issue.

Mr Marandi said that from across the state MLAs have been elected in the house and there are many issues which the MLAs want to raise in the house and when the house is adjourned daily than the legislators are denied an opportunity to raise the and claimed that running the house was the responsibility of all.

He said that many incidents have taken place in the state including those in Chaibasa and Lohardaga over which discussions needed to be held in the house and hoped that decision in this regard will come soon.

On his part Speaker Ravindranath Mahto said that justice will take place and there was no question over that. He said that as far as the Leader of Opposition was concerned he wanted to take the legal advice before arriving on any decision and once the legal opinion comes he will not waste any time over the issue however till that time patience needed to be maintained.

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