Abhishek Banerjee comes unprepared to Lok Sabha

NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, nephew of Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee was found coming unprepared to the Lok Sabha. He is member of the Trinamool Congress party.

One of his question was starred along with TRS member K Kavitha. In the Lok Sabha, the answer to a starred question is given orally on the floor of the House during the Question Hour if time is available.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan called out Abhishek’s name as Kavitha was not present in the House at that time. But he was incognizant then and the Speaker told him, “Your question has come. Leave it if you forgot.”

Members of TMC came to help him by showing him the listed question and telling him how to ask supplementary when the Union Minister of state for heavy industries Babul Supriyo told the answer. This act evoked laughter among members on the treasury bench.

“First of all, I would really want to thank our learned senior member, Saugata Roy, for doing the necessary thing to remind him about the question that has been asked,” said Supriyo.

He added that, “The government has approved setting up of eight centres of excellence enhancement of competitiveness in the capital goods sector.”

The question was related to set up of the centres of excellence for technological development and its state wise location in the country. The approved centres will be at IIT Madras, Chennai and CMTI- Bangalore; PSG college of Technology in Coimbatore, IIT Kharagpur, HEC in Ranchi, SiTrac, IISc and IIT Delhi.