Agartala, July 8: In a major political development, Congress MLA and former minister Sudip Roy Barman was suspended on Friday from Tripura Assembly for the entire budget session for making “derogatory remarks against ministers and treasury bench members”.

Tripura Assembly Speaker Biswa Bandhu Sen suspended Barman for his derogatory remarks.

In the second half of the opening day session of Tripura Assembly, Roy Barman, while participating in a discussion, taking permission of the Speaker while telling a story, without naming any minister and MLA, said “dog barking much more than his master”, angering a section of ministers and MLAs.

The agitated ministers and MLAs demanded the Speaker to expunge Roy Barman’s comments from the assembly records and told the Congress MLA to withdraw his “derogatory remarks”.

Opposition leader Animesh Debbarma and CPI-M legislature party leader Jitendra Choudhury opposed the Speaker’s decision.

Earlier on Friday, Tripura Assembly Speaker suspended five opposition MLAs, including Roy Barman, for the day for disrupting proceedings of the opening day of the budget session.

Opposition members of Tipra Motha Party (TMP), CPI-M and the Congress staged walkout protesting the Speaker’s decision while demanding disciplinary action against BJP MLA Jadab Lal Debnath, who was caught on camera watching an obscene video on his mobile phone while the Tripura Assembly session was going on in March.

The Speaker immediately announced the suspension of five MLAs – Sudip Roy Barman (Congress), Nayan Sarrkar (CPI-M), and Brishaketu Debbarma, Nandita Reang and Ranjit Debbarma, all TMP – and asked the watch and ward staff to remove them from the house.

Congress MLA Roy Barman after entering into the house sprinkled Ganga water on the table and floor of the house “in a bid to purify the assembly premises.”

Six term MLA, Roy Barman remained firm on his position and refused to withdraw the “derogatory remarks”, following which Chief Minister Manik Saha proposed to suspend him for the entire session (till July 13) and the Speaker announced accordingly.

On the request of the Speaker, Roy Barman, also a former BJP MLA and Minister who joined Congress in February last year, walked out from the house.

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