West Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee has said that he has summoned senior officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to explain why no permission had been taken from the Speaker\u2019s office before submitting chargesheets against state legislators recently. Letters have been sent to the city offices of the two central agencies. They have been summoned to the Speaker\u2019s office on September 22.<\/p>\n
Several Bengal MLAs from the ruling Trinamool Congress, including ministers, have been chargesheeted and summoned recently by the two Central probe agencies for their alleged involvement in ponzi scams and the Narada sting operations case.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have asked the ED and CBI officers to come to the Assembly on September 22 and give an explanation as to why the Speaker\u2019s office was not given prior information and why action was taken without seeking my permission,\u201d Banerjee said.<\/p>\n
Trinamool leaders like Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Kunal Ghosh have maintained that the investigating agencies always inform the Speaker of the Lok Sabha for action against MPs but the same is not followed for MLAs in Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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