Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia loses status of Leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly
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Speaker’s transfer comes as energy of his social gathering is one lower than required quantity of 21 MLAs
Congress Legislature Party chief Debabrata Saikia has misplaced the status of Leader of the Opposition in the 126-member Assam Assembly.
An official notification issued stated the Assembly had withdrawn the status from Mr. Saikia as the current energy of the Congress is one lower than the required quantity of 21 MLAs.
Mr. Saikia represents the Nazira constituency in japanese Assam.
“The present strength of the Indian National Congress Legislature Party, Assam Legislative Assembly, is not equal to the quorum fixed to constitute a sitting of the House that is one-sixth of the total number of Members of the House as required… therefore, the Hon’ble Speaker, Assam Legislative Assembly, has been pleased to withdraw the recognition of Debabrata Saikia, MLA, as Leader of the Opposition, with effect from January 1, 2021,” the notification stated.
The Congress had gained 26 seats in the 2016 Assembly elections to take the second spot after the BJP bagged 60 seats.
Six months later, Baithalangso MLA Mansing Rongpi stop the Congress and bought re-elected on BJP ticket. In 2019, Jania MLA Abdul Khaleque resigned after profitable the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat because the Congress candidate. The All India United Democratic Front’s Rafiqul Islam gained the seat in the by-election.
Between February and November 2020, the Congress’s Sibsagar MLA Pranab Kumar Gogoi and former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who represented Titabar, died. In December 2020, two Congress MLAs – Ajanta Neog (Golaghat) and Rajdeep Goala (Lakhipur) – stop and joined the BJP.
