"Blot on democracy": Trinamool Criticises BJP Over Ruckus During Governor's Address

Trinamool MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray reiterated the demand for bye-elections to the seven assembly seats in West Bengal at the earliest.

The Trinamool Congress hit out at the BJP today for creating ruckus during Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's inaugural address to the newly constituted Assembly. Addressing a press conference, TMC's Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said the opposition party's actions in the House on Friday were a "blot on democracy". "Listening to the Governor's address does not tantamount to one blindly supporting everything in it. It is courtesy. One can certainly vent his objection to the address in the reply speech," he said. The opening session of the newly-constituted West Bengal assembly got off to a stormy start as the Governor was forced to cut short his speech amid ruckus by the opposition BJP MLAs who took offence after finding "no mention" of post-poll violence in the address.