AGARTALA, March 27 (TIWN): Minister Ratan Lal Nath after the Assembly fiasco that led the Leftist MLAs to boycott the Assembly for the entire session, expressed his shock over the opposition legislators' lack of trust in the speaker. “If you can not trust the speaker, we need to appoint Melarmath’s secretary to the position,” said Ratan Lal Nath in an attempt to establish the fact that Speaker Biswabandhu Sen received his letter first than Opposition leader Jiten Chowdhury’s letter which compelled the Speaker to accept Nath’s letter and refuse Chowdhury’s letter in the Assembly.

The entire issue erupted since Tripura opposition leader Jitendra Chowdhury, was questioned on his community’s nature by Minister Ratan Lal Nath on 24^th March. Jiten Chowdhury wrote a letter which was issued as a notice to Ratan Lal Nath on his remark, but his letter was rejected on the ground that the accused Minister already submitted another letter before the opposition leader.

Jiten Chowdhury said it was a fraudulence activity by the speaker, favoring the Minister illegally, as no letter was submitted before Jiten Chowdhury’s letter.

“When we appealed Ratan Lal Nath to withdraw his remarks, the speaker insisted Ratan Lal Nath’s speech was not derogatory,” said Chowdhury.

“After not receiving justice from the speaker, I decided to issue a notice-letter and submitted it to the registrar’s office”, said Chowdhury. “That time, there was no other letter in the Assembly registrar dispatch, but things started changing after they got my letter.”

“Yesterday till night 11 PM, Ratan Lal Nath forced Assembly officials to destroy some records. Today in the Assembly, as an excuse for not accepting my notice, the speaker said Ratan Lal Nath’s PA submitted the letter to Speaker’s PA before my letter was received. Doesn’t the Minister’s PA know about dispatch? Why a PA will hand over notice to Speaker’s PA?” asked Jiten Chowdhury.

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“According to rules, any letter which will come at the dispatch will be accepted first. But unfortunately, by totally violating the rules, my notice was refused to be accepted,” said Chowdhury referring to how his notice was rejected.

“Nothing unfortunate to see how speaker is not obeying the Assembly laws. He has slaughtered the democracy in broad-daylight,” said Chowdhury.

Protesting against this, the CPI-M legislators walked out of the Assembly, boycotting the Assembly for the entire session.