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Saugata Roy Speaks on Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 | Transcript

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Regarding the speech by Dr Sanjay Jaiswal of BJP where he made a mention of what I had said earlier on the Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance. Unless he had mentioned my name, I would not have risen and taken the time of the House. On our behalf Ratna De will speak and please allow me two minutes.

Sir, Rule 357 says a Member may with the permission of the Speaker, make a personal explanation, although there is no question before the House, but in the case no debatable matter may be brought forward and no debate shall arise.

Sir, I was told, as I was not here,  the Citizenship Bill was being discussed, while discussing the Bill, Dr Jaiswal made a reference to the points I made while opposing the introduction of the Bill the other day. I had mentioned that this Government has brought six Ordinances and trying to run the country through an Ordinance Raj. So this is not good governance. I am told that Dr Sanjay Jaiswal had stated that in West Bengal MPs are being arrested. He also said the Chief Minister’s companion is being arrested.

Now, when I made the reference I did not mention which ruling party President was arrested earlier.  I also did not mention which ruling party Chief Minister was arrested earlier. I also did not mention how the President of the ruling party was let off by the CBI in a case of rioting and murder. I have not mentioned.

I want these references by Dr Sanjay Jaiswal should be deleted as I was not even in the House when my references were made.

Organisational changes in Trinamool Congress

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Trinamool Chairperson Mamata Banerjee presided over a meeting of Presidents of various district committees, heads of frontal organisations and senior leaders at her Kalighat office today.

Keeping in mind the growing national importance of the party several organisational changes were made in the meeting.

Party Secretary General Partha Chatterjee addressed the press after the meeting to make the following announcements:

  • Trinamool has appointed Subrata Bakshi as All India General Secretary.
  • Derek O’Brien, Firhad Hakim and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar have been elevated to a new body which will function as the National Secretariat of the party.
  • Subrata Mukherjee has been given the charge of Tripura. Suvendu Adhikari will oversee organisational activities in Assam. Derek O’Brien will oversee the party’s organisation in North Eastern states and Kerala.
  • Dinesh Trivedi has been appointed as one of the new Vice Presidents of the party.
  • Derek O’Brien and Kalyan Banerjee will keep in touch with like-minded parties and oversee functions in Parliament.
  • Municipal elections were discussed today. We have formed committees for the same.
  • We started the membership drive on January 1, 2015. Scrutiny committees will operate at district and State level.
  • There will be no membership fees for family of martyrs. People can become primary members of the party by paying a fee of Re 1.
  • One can also become a Associate or active member of the party by paying Rs 50000, which will be renewable every 5 years.
  • All applications for membership will be submitted to District Scrutiny Committees, who in turn will forward them to State Scrutiny Committee for final approval.
  • District Committees have been asked to prepare list of candidates for upcoming municipal polls, which will be submitted to State Committee. Mamata Banerjee will give final approval for the the candidate list.