Bengal Law To Stop Defection

The West Bengal government will place two amendment Bills in the coming session of the assembly seeking to introduce anti-defection law for the peoples representatives in all municipalities and municipal corporations in the state. State urban development minister Ashok Bhattacharjee told newspersons yesterday that the proposed law would be in line with the existing one for the panchayat members. He said that while a Bill for the amendment of Acts for Calcutta, Howrah, Siliguri, Asansol, Chandannagar and Durgapur corporations would be placed in the House, a separate State Municipal Act Amendment Bill would be brought in to cover all the municipalities.