CPI-M boycotts Tripura Assembly over Speaker’s ‘Undemocratic’ conduct

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Mar 26, 2025

Agartala, Mar 26 (FD) The opposition CPI-M in Tripura decided to boycott the rest of the ongoing budget session of the state assembly in protest against ‘partisan and undemocratic’ behavior of the assembly speaker, Biswabandhu Sen.

The leader of the opposition and the Secretary of the state unit of CPI-M, Jitendra Chowdhury said, “We have decided to boycott the rest of the assembly session ending on April 1 due to arbitrarily rejecting our privilege motion against the parliamentary affairs minister Ratan Lal Nath who threw ‘racial slurs’ against me on Monday on the floor of the house”.

He said that they had duly submitted the privilege motion, but the speaker had rejected the motion without following due process.

“The speaker is behaving like a BJP leader and not like the speaker who presides over proceedings democratically. I had submitted the privilege motion by abiding all norms of the law but the speaker has arbitrarily rejected my motion”, Chowdhury told reporters in the assembly.

He said for the last few years the assembly speakers was behaving like a party leader and was running the house at the dictate of the minister for parliamentary affairs, Ratan Lal Nath, who never cares for the voice of opposition .

“We think this is murder of democracy, so we have decided to boycott the assembly till April 1. We hope that good sense will prevail and they would start respecting democratic norms”, Chowdhury said.

 However, Nath yesterday said he did not throw any racial slur against Chowdhury and part of his speech was twisted by CPI-M. The CPI-M has 11 legislators in the sixty-member Tripura assembly. FD JK