BJP members stage walkout from Bengal Assembly

Kolkata: BJP members on Wednesday staged a walkout from the West Bengal Assembly, protesting the Speaker's refusal to allow a discussion on an adjournment motion over the proposed allowing of 30 per cent tea garden land to be made freehold for tourism purposes.

Speaker Biman Banerjee, while withholding



consent to a discussion on the adjournment motion brought by some BJP members, allowed party legislator Vishal Lama to read out the motion.

The Speaker said that the issue could be discussed during the session and there was no need for an adjournment motion to be allowed over it.