Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saryu Roy has expressed his anguish for persistent pandemonium in the House and held himself among the responsibles for unable to end the logjam which resulted into another sine die well ahead of the schedule.

“The House is not able to function for the last two years in a proper manner. Being the Parliamentary Affairs Minister it was my responsibility to talk to everyone and build a consensus. I felt that I have not been able to deliver my constitutional responsibilities properly. I have told this to the Chief Minister to relinquish me. I have also requested the Speaker to change my seat in the House and allot it to the new person,” said Roy in a press conference outside the House on Tuesday.

The senior most Minister of the Raghuabr Das Cabinet who is also holding charge of the Food and Civil Supplies Department has requested the CM to take back Parliamentary Affairs portfolio from him owning the moral responsibility for stalemate. Nonetheless he clarified that it should not be perceived as his discontinuation from the Cabinet.

He however declined that the failing to run the House is a matter of collective responsibility but is more a morality issue. “The situation put a question mark over relevance of the Assembly and as a Minister of that portfolio I have failed to deliver and thus have relinquished the position,” he said.

Roy, who had also written to the CM to act against Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma and ADG Anurag Gupta, at the same time, expressed satisfaction over the responses came. “It is matter of satisfaction for me that in one case show cause has been issued and probe has been ordered in another case following my letter to the CM,” said the Minister.