Kolkata:
Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee will take a class for newly-elected party MLAs in West Bengal to help them understand the proceedings in the Assembly, their rights and duties.
"Mukherjee, who was a lecturer in Political Science in a South 24-Parganas district college before joining politics in the early 1960s, will take a class on House norms for the newly elected MLAs tomorrow," state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharjee said on Thursday.
"This type of meeting used to take place earlier also. But it has a significance this time since Congress is now a coalition partner in the new government," Bhattacharjee said.
At an earlier meeting in May, Mukherjee had ordered the newly-elected Congress MLAs in West Bengal to be present in the Assembly during its sessions and be part of the proceedings.
A parliamentarian of long standing, the Union Finance Minister had said there cannot be anything more important than participation in House proceedings.
Of the 42 Congress legislators, 27 are first-timers.