Agartala, Jan 5: Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on Wednesday disqualified BJP MLA Ashis Das, who joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on October 31 last year severely criticising the saffron party and its leadership.
The Assembly Speaker said that after examining all relevant papers and documents and petition of BJP Chief Whip Kalyani Roy he disqualified Das under the anti-defection law (the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution).
Roy earlier filed a petition to the Assembly Speaker to disqualify the 43-years-old legislator as he openly criticised the ruling BJP party and its leaders before joining the TMC at a function here on October 31, 2021.
“With the disqualification, Das would not be entitled to get any facilities, allowance and pension. Despite many letters and communications from the State Assembly Secretariat, he did not respond to any of the letters and communication,” Chakraborty told the media.
The Speaker said that he has been examining the case of IPFT (Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura) MLA Brishaketu Debbarma, 44, who resigned from the Assembly membership in June last year and joined the TIPRA (Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance) headed by Tripura’s royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman.
The IPFT, with eight MLAS, is a junior ally of the ruling BJP in Tripura.
Das earlier alleged that the governance in Tripura is worse than British rule.
Praising Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata in October last year, he had claimed that people in Tripura have been suffering a lot after the BJP-led government came to power.
The dissident BJP legislator, after shaving his head and performing a ‘yagna’ at the Kalighat temple in Kolkata on October 6, had said that political anarchy and chaos were prevailing in the BJP-ruled Tripura where people are unhappy with the performance of the state government.
