Leader of opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday led BJP MLAs to Raj Bhavan seeking the governor's intervention against the speaker's decision to appoint Mukul Roy as Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman even as party MLAs resigned in protest from the chairman post of eight assembly standing committees offered to them. A BJP legislature team will leave for Delhi to submit the same memorandum to the President and the Lok Sabha speaker, Roy, who won the assembly election on a BJP ticket, was made PAC Chariman a few weeks after he returned to TMC. By convention, the post goes to an opposition member. "The speaker has flouted the rules and procedures of conduct of business in the Bengal Assembly. He could have chosen anyone from the six names BJP had provided to him for PAC chairman's post. We recommended renowned economist Ashok Lahiri's name. But he tagged Mukul Roy's name as one from BJP when we hadn't sent his name, "Adhikari said. 50% of UP BJP MLAs have three or more children. In a draft bill aimed at controlling population, the UP government proposes to bar people with more than two children from contesting local body elections, applying for and getting promotion in government jobs, and availing government subsidies. Ironically, if these provisions of the draft Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021, were to be applied for elections to the state's legislative assembly half of the MLAs of the ruling BJP would get disqualified. According to information provided by the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, of the 397 current MLAs whose bio profiles are uploaded on its website, 204 are from the ruling party of which 152 (exactly half) have three or more children. One of the MLAs has eight children the highest in thhis list. There is one another with seven children. Apart from them, there are eight members with six children each while 15 are parents of five children each, while 83 have three children each. All of them would get disqualified if similar norms were to be applied to the state legislature.
