India, June 20 -- Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Friday asked Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to initiate breach of parliamentary privilege proceedings over an alleged attack on his convoy by West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress during his visit to South 24 Parganas district.

The West Bengal BJP chief had gone to Budge Budge in South 24 Parganas on Thursday to meet an injured party worker when some people staged a protest, demanding unpaid wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Scheme and threw slippers at his convoy and shouted slogans against him.

In his letter, Majumdar, the Balurghat MP and president of Bengal unit of BJP, said, "On June 19, while I was visiting Diamond Harbour to meet the...