03-23-2006, 03:35 AM
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It was a rare site in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. On one of the most dramatic days in the <b>Lok Sabha Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of the Opposition sat throughout its tumultuous proceedings while Speaker Somnath Chatterjee decided to stay away from the House.</b> âSince my name has appeared in a newspaper with regard to which some honourable members have been agitating, I said in my Constitutional duty that I am not sitting on the Chair by way of propriety,â Mr Chatterjee told mediapersons. One of the MPs involved in MPLADS schemes, who had been asked by Mr Chatterjee not to attend the House till he had been cleared of the charges levelled against him, however, dubbed it âpoetic justiceâ. â<b>If he was so conscious of his Constitutional responsibility, he should have stopped attending the House since the day Trinamool Congress leader sent a petition to the President questioning the legality of his remaining an MP because he held an office of profit,â </b>he said. In her missive to the President sent last week, <b>Ms Bannerjee had demanded that Mr Chatterjee should be disqualified from the membership of the House because of his chairmanship of a body in Shantiniketan.</b>Â <!--emo&
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It was a rare site in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. On one of the most dramatic days in the <b>Lok Sabha Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of the Opposition sat throughout its tumultuous proceedings while Speaker Somnath Chatterjee decided to stay away from the House.</b> âSince my name has appeared in a newspaper with regard to which some honourable members have been agitating, I said in my Constitutional duty that I am not sitting on the Chair by way of propriety,â Mr Chatterjee told mediapersons. One of the MPs involved in MPLADS schemes, who had been asked by Mr Chatterjee not to attend the House till he had been cleared of the charges levelled against him, however, dubbed it âpoetic justiceâ. â<b>If he was so conscious of his Constitutional responsibility, he should have stopped attending the House since the day Trinamool Congress leader sent a petition to the President questioning the legality of his remaining an MP because he held an office of profit,â </b>he said. In her missive to the President sent last week, <b>Ms Bannerjee had demanded that Mr Chatterjee should be disqualified from the membership of the House because of his chairmanship of a body in Shantiniketan.</b>Â <!--emo&
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