Leader of opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuedsay led BJP MLAs to Raj Bhavan seeking the governor's intervention against the speaker's decision to appoint Mukul Roy as Public Accounts Committee 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 chairman a few weeks after he returned to TMC. By conention, 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 renowened economist Ashok Lahiri's name. But he tagged Mukul Roy's name asone from BJP when we hadn't sent his name, "Adhikari said. North Delhi Municipal Corporation will hand over 110 community toilet complexes to private companies for maintenance and operation under a seven-year contract. It has been decided to charge mean a user fee of Rs 5 for all facilities other than urinals while keeping everything free for women and children. "To provide convenient and hygienic services to the general public and at the same time generate some revenue, we have taken the decision. After seven years, these complexes will be handed back to the municipal corporation in a proper working corporation in a proper working condition. In case of repair, the same will need to be repaired within two months, said the official. A tenders has been issued to select the companies. According to the tender notice "The civic body will charge.
