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Finding no other option Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim had adjourned the session for 10 days. The session is now going to begin on December 10, the very day it was supposed to be closed.
The Opposition had, however, accused the Marxists of a conspiracy to stifle democracy. It also exhorted the state government to take penal action against those responsible. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, too, was very upset about the whole thing and had told PWD Minister Kishiti Goswamy to be strict with those who neglected their duties.
“We have initiated an inquiry and have suspended Niranjan Das, executive engineer, Debashish Paul, Assistant Engineer and Krishnapada Ghosh, sub-assistant engineer. They will remain under suspension till the inquiry is over,” Goswamy said today.
He said that a four-member committee has been set up with the engineer-in-chief of his department as the head, which has been told to submit its report within 15 days. The country head of Bosch India, which had got the contract worth Rs 1.64 crore to revamp the sound system in the Assembly, has come from Bangalore and the company’s CEO has been called from Singapore to give explanations.
“There should have been proper checking of the microphones before the session starts. That was not done. It was a colossal negligence. I apologise to the people of the state for the faux pas,” he added.
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Engineers should be sacked atleast until the elections. Then they should be reinstated with back pay just before the elections.
This is obscene. When ministers fail to perform their duties or fulfil their promises there is no action against them. Whereas a PWD engineer who was performing his duties diligently so far is being subjected to 'strict action'. I'm not saying that non-performance of the engineer should be neglected but demand of action from the breed which is probably the most corrupt is pure hypocrisy.
The most likely cause of breakdown is fatigue - - (of the sound system which had endured high decibel din from members for too long) There will however be no damage due to the adjournment. If anything, its only business seems to be to demonstrate lawlessness to the citizens of the great democracy!! But why should the PWD engineers bother, when they can gather their pay packet from home under suspension??