India, Sept. 4 -- High drama unfolded in the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday as Shankar Ghosh, the chief whip of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was marshalled out of the House after refusing to leave after his suspension.

Ghosh was suspended from the assembly for the rest of the day for creating a ruckus during a discussion on a government resolution over "atrocities" against Bengali migrants, Speaker Biman Banerjee said.

The suspension came after BJP MLAs began raising slogans as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was about to speak on the resolution.

The sloganeering began as BJP legislators sought to know why Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was suspended on September 2. They were joined by Ghosh in their protest, which led...