India, Feb. 17 -- Four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in West Bengal, including leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the party's state general secretary Agnimitra Paul, were suspended from the assembly for 30 days for allegedly tearing official documents and throwing them at the Speaker while staging a protest in the House against alleged attempts to stall Saraswati Puja in various educational institutions in the state.

"The way the leader of the Opposition and some MLAs behaved today is condemnable. They tore official documents and threw them at the Speaker's chair. Nirmal Ghosh (Trinamool Congress chief whip) brought a motion to suspend them for 30 days. The motion was put to vote. The MLAs voted for this, and it was...