Congress, LF members stage walk-out in assembly

Members of the Congress and Left Front today walked out and boycotted proceedings of the assembly which passed the West Bengal Appropriation Bill 2013 and West Bengal VAT amendment Bill 2013.
Soon after Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay allowed RSP member Subhas Naskar to read out an adjournment motion on law and order situation in the state, Congress members alleged discrimination against them as it had been pre-decided in the business advisory committee that no adjournment motions would be allowed during the day's agenda.
Later, when the all departmental budgets except health were being sequentially guillotined in the House, Leader of the Opposition and CPI(M) member Surya Kant Mishra said that the Left Front wanted a debate on all of them as well as the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (who also holds the health portfolio) in the House who was not present then.

After entering the House, which was bereft of Congress and Left Front members, Banerjee said that she had given prior intimation to the Speaker that she would be arriving at around 12:30 PM due to other official work.