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After BJP Legislator Joins Trinamool, Tripura To Change Allowances Rule


MLA Ashish Das obtained his head tonsured to “atone” for being related to BJP. File

Agartala:

Two days after a ruling BJP MLA of Tripura joined the Trinamool Congress, the Biplab Kumar Deb authorities determined to alter the rule that allowed lawmakers to get pleasure from sure amenities, together with allowances for the remainder of their lives even when they continue to be so for simply in the future.

As per the proposed new rule, legislators might want to full one full time period to be entitled to such advantages, Info and Tradition Minister Sushanta Chowdhury mentioned right now.

The “constructive” resolution was taken by the council of ministers on Tuesday, he mentioned.

Ashish Das, BJP MLA of Surma (SC) constituency in Dhalai district, joined the Trinamool on Sunday at a rally of occasion common secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Agartala. He didn’t resign as a legislator.

The earlier Left Entrance administration had enacted a rule that every one amenities and monetary advantages could be given to a legislator who served no less than 4 years in workplace.

After coming to energy in 2018, the BJP-IPFT authorities hiked allowances of legislators and in addition mentioned every legislator may get pleasure from their pension and different monetary advantages even when they continue to be an MLA for a single day.

“We imagine within the accountability and integrity of the legislators. They’d be extra accountable after this resolution,” Mr Chowdhury instructed reporters.

Although Mr Das formally joined the Trinamool on October 31, he had slammed Chief Minister Deb over his model of functioning and criticised the actions of the BJP throughout his go to to Kolkata on October 5.

He had additionally praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and shaved his head on the well-known Kalighat temple, positioned near the residence of the Trinamool supremo, as an act of “atonement” for being related to “a communal occasion”.

Kalyani Roy, the federal government chief whip of Tripura meeting, had on October 27 written to Speaker Ratan Chakraborty demanding disqualification of Mr Das as an MLA for “anti-party actions”.

Mr Chakraborty served a discover on Mr Das the following day looking for to know why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him beneath the anti-defection legislation. A reply was sought inside seven days, an Meeting official mentioned.

“If the reply doesn’t come throughout the stipulated time, he could be requested to seem bodily, and motion may also be initiated in opposition to him,” the Speaker mentioned.

(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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