Partha Chatterjee has been suspended from the party, cabinet and all committees of the assembly. Because he is now a jailed MLA on charges of corruption. So he has no job. Therefore, compared to other MLAs, his salary has decreased a lot, according to sources in the Legislative Assembly Secretariat. His salary will be reduced by about 60 thousand rupees.
How exactly is the matter going? According to Assembly sources, MLAs get salary and other benefits. And get additional allowance by attending various committee meetings of the assembly. There are total 41 committees in the assembly. By attending the meeting there, MLAs can ensure a maximum monthly allowance of 60,000 taka. MLAs are required to sit on at least two committees. Partha Chatterjee has been dismissed from all committees. So Perth will not get that 60 thousand taka allowance.
So how much money will Perth get? According to the sources of the Legislative Assembly Secretariat, the MLAs get Tk 21,870 as salary after excluding the meeting allowance of these committees. And if a MLA attends committee meetings, he gets a total salary of 82,000 taka. Now Perth is not in any committee. So he will get Rs 21,870 as salary. According to sources, the Trinamool Parishad Party has decided not to place Partha Chatterjee in any committee of the Assembly.
What else is known? According to the rules of the Vidhan Sabha, ministers cannot be members of any committee. Therefore, the new ministers Partha Bhowmik, Snehashis Chakraborty, Tajmul Hossain, Pradeep Majumdar, Udayan Guha, Satyajit Burman and Babul Supriya have dropped out. Saumen Mohapatra, Ratna de Nag, Paresh Adhikari and Humayun Kabir were placed in the assembly committee as MLAs after being dropped from the cabinet again. As a result, they will get additional 60 thousand rupees from now. And a letter is being written to the bank authorities to prevent the money from Perth’s account from going to the party fund.