Sudip Roy Barman, ran away with the mace

Many in the state saw it as a repeat of what had once happened in the same house in the 1970s

Supratim Dey  |  Guwahati  December 23, 2016 Last Updated at 22:02 IST

When an MLA snatched the ceremonial mace of the Speaker in the middle of the assembly session in Tripura on Monday and made a dash with it, many in the state saw it as a repeat of what had once happened in the same house in the 1970s. It was Nripen Chakraborty, former chief minister and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) stalwart, who had enacted a similar scene in the assembly when he was in the opposition.  Now it was the turn of Sudip Roy Barman, a political heavyweight and member of Trinamool Congress, to re-enact the same. But for the “firebrand, dashing and ...

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Sudip Roy Barman, ran away with the mace