Assembly Proceedings. Official Report. Bengal Legislative Assembly. Second Session 1946. The 2nd 3rd 5th 6th 12th 13th 14th 15th and 20th August and 2nd September 1946

SPEAKER: So far as I am concerned I hold the view that the office of the Legislative Assembly Department is under the control of the Legilathle Assembly and its chief executive is the Speaker. [...] Even on other grounds considering the question of convenience or inconvenience of 250 members as against 63 or 65 members the commonplace principle of the greatest good of the greatest number demands that this House ought to have the precedence in the matter of selecting the time for its meeting. [...] Speaker Sir in venturing to speak a few words criticising the budget as presented to us I do not propose to go into details of the figures of revenue and expenditure during the prreform days when in the words of the Hon'ble the Finance Minister the total expenditure of running the administration of the province was more or less 12 crores only. [...] But he was avoiding the name; as the Bengali proverb says the name of the bhadra bou is avoided in the case of the elder brother of her husband. [...] Hemanta Kumar Bose gave a vivid description of the inconvenience of the people with regard to the purchase of the rationed articles in the city of Calcutta.