Tuesday, 06 February 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
LoP Yashpal Ayra, Pritam Singh resign from the BAC of Assembly, Cong legislators register protest with governor
Agitated at the plan of the State government to do away with the question hour and other business during the ongoing session of Uttarakhand assembly, the leader of opposition (LoP) Yashpal Arya and Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh have resigned from the business advisory committee (BAC) of the house. These two leaders resigned after a stormy meeting of the BAC held in the State assembly on Monday afternoon.
The opposition members opposed the plan of the session proposed by the parliamentary affairs minister Premchand Agarwal in which there was no provision of question hour and zero hour. The government wanted to concentrate the session only on tabling of bills on UCC and granting 10 per cent horizontal reservation to statehood activists in government jobs and suspend normal business. The Congress members opposed the plan and said that the government is trying to surpass the norms of functioning the house. Registering their protest the LoP Arya and Pritam Singh resigned from the BAC. The Congress legislators also met the governor Lieutenant General ( Retd) Gurmit Singh at Rajbhawan and submitted their protest on the issue.
The LoP Arya told The Pioneer that the State government is trying to impose its hegemony on everything and now it wants to suppress the right of the members of the assembly. He said that the session is not a special session as being made out by the ruling party but an extension of the winter session which was adjourned but not prorogued. Arya said that question hour is the privilege of the MLAs and the government’s plan to do away with it is actually a breach of privilege of the members. Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh said that the ongoing session is the continuation of the session of the assembly which was adjourned on September 8 and suspension of question hour and the notices of public interests is an infringement on the rules business regulation of the house. He further stated that on January 25 the Vidhan Sabha secretariat had dispatched a letter to all members to submit their notices under rule 53,58, 299 and 300 before January 6.
