The Mamata Banerjee government intends to follow the correct protocol and avoid further conflict with Raj Bhavan regarding the swearing-in of four legislators elected in the July 10 bypolls, said sources.

The government also aims to complete the process before the commencement of the monsoon session of the Assembly on July 22, which is a day after the Trinamul Congress's annual "Martyrs' Day" programme.

“The monsoon session of the Assembly will start on July 22,” Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee said.

Although Biman said the session's duration would depend on the "volume of business", sources in the Assembly indicated that the House would meet for 10 days.

Sources in the government said following the recent controversy over the oath-taking of Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, who had become MLAs in by-elections, the administration would adhere to the constitutional protocol to avert any conflict with governor C.V. Ananda Bose when it came to the swearing-in of the four legislators.

According to the rule, after the election process is over, the election officer sends separate letters to the Assembly and the state government, detailing the winners. Then, the parliamentary affairs department requests Raj Bhavan to conduct the swearing-in.

The stand-off between Raj Bhavan and the Assembly arose when the parliamentary affairs department did not send any letter to Bose and the Speaker, instead, informed Raj Bhavan that he would administer the oath to Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.

Insiders in the state cabinet indicated that a communiqué from the state parliamentary affairs department would be sent to the governor's office this week, requesting him to either administer the oath to the four MLAs himself or nominate someone for the purpose.

The four newly elected MLAs are Madhuparna Thakur from Bagda, Supti Pandey from Maniktala, Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj and Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat Dakshin.

The governor had invited Sayantika and Sarkar to Raj Bhavan to take their oath on June 26. When both of them expressed their preference to be sworn in at the Assembly suggesting that Bose go there instead, the governor delegated the responsibility to deputy Speaker Asish Banerjee.

However, the Speaker convened a special session and administered the oath to the duo.

Bose wrote to President Droupadi Murmu about the constitutional impropriety of the two MLAs' swearing-in. According to the governor, the Speaker ignored the constitutional protocol and conducted the oath under rule 5 of "Rules of the procedure and conduct of business, West Bengal Legislative Assembly" after the deputy Speaker refused to accept the proposal of the governor under Article 188 of the Constitution.

With regard to the new four MLAs, a minister said the reaction from the governor would determine the next course of action. "If the governor adopts the same path of prolonging the process, the Speaker of the House will use his own authority and administer the oath to the four MLAs in the forthcoming session of the House," said the minister.