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Chaos erupts in Bengal Assembly as BJP walks out over CM Mamata's fake social media comments
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Kolkata: Major chaos erupted in West Bengal assembly during West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's speech with BJP MLAs staged walkout over Banerjee's fake social media comments. BJP staged a walkout and protested outside the premises. Meanwhile, Banerjee claimed that in the coming polls, BJP will end up with zero in next assembly chief whip Shankar Ghosh said a personal attack was made by Banerjee against a BJP legislator. 'The Chief Minister also slammed me about my defeat in the municipal polls,' Shankar Ghosh BJP legislators stood and shouted slogans inside the assembly but the Chief Minister continued her speech. Then, they staged a BJP MLAs protested and staged walkout from the House after their proposal for adjournment motion on the "crisis engulfing the state Education sector in view of the SSC scam,".BJP MLAs Manoj Oraon was suspended by the Speaker for the day on Monday and chaos erupted after Banerjee brought some references that the opposition party was talking about the "godi media" and fake social media also claimed the opposition purposefully insulted her, whenever she was in the assembly."They (BJP) only want to use bad words, bad phrases against me, they only level charges against me, they only spread canards. Will they decide what one will wear, eat, which footwear he or she will wear. Will they impose diktat?" She said when BJP had already staged a walkout and the opposition bench was Biman Bandopadhyay suspended BJP legislator Manoj Oraon from the assembly for a day for breaching discipline and cautioned Chief Whip Shankar Ghosh for shouting. All 40 BJP MLAs then went out of the house holding a potted tulsi also made a sarcastic jibe at BJP state President Sukanta Majumdar on the issue of allegedly hurling a slipper at a Sikh police officer recently without naming him. This is in reference to Majumdar's 'Kalighat Abhijaan', heading towards"If they are in love with chappals, why don't they open shops?," she Majumdar said that the Chief Minister is playing dirty politics. 'I had thrown a placard which had touched my security's turban. I apologize if it has hurt his sentiments. But Bengal Police, during the state secretariat 'Nabanna Abhijan' had attacked a Sikh person.'
