In a spate of incidents of political violence since Lok Sabha elections, dozens of people have been killed or grievously injured in West Bengal. In his letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay claimed that Rule 41 (xiii) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha regarding conditions of admissibility of questions is being violated in the House. "However, three questions (numbers 1646, 1732 and 1749) have been allowed in the Lok Sabha regarding political violence during 2019 general elections... In a similar letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman, TMC member Derek O'Brien claimed that four questions on the same topic had been allowed. But the law-and-order situation in West Bengal has been raised multiple times in different forms during this session," said O'Brien.

Source: dna July 17, 2019 00:00 UTC