Trinamool Congress today claimed that certain sections of Governor M K Narayanan's address in the West Bengal Assembly violated the model code of conduct and said the matter had been brought to the notice of the state's Chief Electoral Officer.
"In our view, certain sections of the Governor's speech were violative of the model code of conduct. We met the CEO Sunil Gupta today and brought this to his notice," Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Partha Chatterjee told reporters here.
He, however, did not specify which sections of the speech violated the model code of conduct.
Chatterjee, who was accompanied by Trinamool Congress state president Subrata Bakshi, told Gupta that state government was also trying to pass the financial statements in the House along with the vote on account.
"We told the CEO that the government did the same thing while presenting a vote on account in the state Assembly in 1996," Chatterjee said.
The Governor's speech, he said, was full of "untruths" and "half-truths".
"The speech was prepared by the government and so the Governor could not read out a factual report. Only a government which has no accountability can prepare such a statement."
Trinamool Congress Legislature Party would meet the Governor and request him to use his "own machinery" to find out the veracity of the information provided in his speech, he said.
Chatterjee said Trinamool Congress MLAs would protest against the Governor's speech during the debate in the House.
Asked if his party would protest jointly with the Congress and SUCI, he said, "We will tell all the parties, including the Congress, about our protest." Earlier, CLP leader Abu Hena said there was no mention in the speech of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
"There is no mention of the number of people killed in the past one year in various places of the state, including Netai," he said.
Stating that the state government had incurred a debt of Rs two lakh crore and was unable to pay salaries to its employees, he said these had not been mentioned in the speech.
"Most of the fundings mentioned for various projects, has been done by the Centre, but this was cleverly avoided in the Governor's speech," he said.
In reply to a question, Hena said that Congress, however, would allow the vote on account to be passed as otherwise, government salaries would be held up.
