Guwahati: An Opposition MLA in Assam Assembly , Aminul Islam of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), was suspended from the Assembly for three days effective from Monday for unauthorised live streaming of House proceedings on social media.
Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami ordered the suspension of Islam on the basis of a report of theAssembly’s Ethics Committee, of which the suspended MLA is also a member.
Islam had streamed ‘live’ his speech from the House on Facebook on February 3 last, without any permission from the speaker, apparently to facilitate people fromhis constituency to watch live what he was speaking in the House.
Parliamentary Affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary had given a written complaint to the speaker about the unauthorized live streaming of House proceedings.
The Speaker in turn forwarded the matter to the ethics committee, headed by the deputy speaker.
The report of the ethics committee was submitted to the speaker on Monday morning.
Drawing reference to a similar case involving AAP MP Bhagwan Mann in the parliament, Speaker Goswami suspended of Islam for three days till February 8.
The speaker asked Islam, who was present in the House at the moment of reading of the ruling, to leave the House immediately, to which the MLA complied.
