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Mamata's decision `justified'

Marcus Dam

KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee's reported decision to resign from the Lok Sabha "is politically justified," the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and Trinamool Congress leader, Pankaj Banerjee, said here on Thursday.

The Trinamool MLAs in the Assembly might reconsider their membership in the House and follow suit "if Ms. Banerjee sticks to her stand," the party's general secretary, Partha Chatterjee, said. A decision on the matter would be taken at a meeting of the Trinamool leadership, he added.

"We support her stand which was to raise [in the Lok Sabha] issues concerning West Bengal and particularly the problem of infiltration into the State from across the border [with Bangladesh] which is giving rise to instability in the State," Mr. Banerjee said.

Earlier in the afternoon there was pandemonium in the Assembly when members of the Trinamool threw business papers into the air, thumped their desks and rushed towards the Speaker's podium protesting against a remark by a CPI(M) MLA regarding the developments in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day, centreing around Ms. Banerjee.

The Trinamool members demanded that the CPI(M) MLA's remark that Ms. Banerjee had insulted the Lok Sabha Speaker's Chair by throwing papers at the podium be expunged.

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