4 newly elected TMC MLAs take oath in Bengal Assembly

Krishna Kalyani, Mukutmani Adhikari, Madhuparna Thakur, and Supti Pandey - the four newly elected Trinamool MLAs on Tuesday took oath in the state assembly. Speaker Biman Banerjee administers the oaths. The four MLAs wrote to the Speaker on Monday – when the monsoon session of the legislative assembly began – to administer the ceremony.

Following the oath administration, Biman Banerjee claimed that the entire ceremony was done following the constitution. Meanwhile, the BJP members boycotted the oath ceremony as they remained absent from the session.

This comes after the legislative assembly witnessed a month-long impasse between Governor C V Ananda Bose and the ruling Trinamool Congress over the oath-taking ceremony.  Bypolls for Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagdah, and Maniktala were held on July 10, with TMC candidates Krishna Kalyani, Mukutmani Adhikari, Madhuparna Thakur and Supti Pandey winning these assembly seats.

After the MLAs were elected, the Speaker had written to Bose, asking if he would administer the ceremony, to which the latter reportedly did not respond. “If the Governor does not assign someone to administer the oath-taking ceremony, the house will organize the ceremony during a session,” the Speaker had said.