BJP lawmakers Sudip Mukhopadhyay and Mihir Goswami were suspended from attending the West Bengal assembly for the rest of the current session for creating disturbances in the House during Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's inaugural speech.
The motion was brought by the state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee seeking the suspension of the BJP MLAs for the rest of the budget session of the House and was put to vote by Speaker Biman Banerjee. Moving the motion in the Assembly, Chatterjee said that during the governor’s address on March 7 Mihir Goswami had created disturbance by indulged in sloganeering, waving placards. The motion was passed by voice vote.
