PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The Uttarakhand government has convened a special session of Vidhan Sabha on April 28. The session will be held in Vidhan Sabha building of Dehradun. Discussion on the issue of the women reservation in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas will be held during the session. As per the order issued by the State administration, the session will be of formal and no legislative work would be held during it. The Vidhan Sabha speaker Ritu Khanduri confirmed that the special session will be held on April 28. She however added that the formal notification for the session will be issued after the approval of the governor. Khanduri said discussion on the subject ‘ Nari Samman- Loktantra Mai Adhikar’ will be held during the session.
In a letter, the principal secretary Sahdev Singh said on Wednesday that the special session of fifth Vidhan Sabha of Uttarakhand will be held in Dehradun on April 28. The State administration has also appointed nodal officers for the special session.
The special session is likely to be stormy with the treasury and opposition benches blaming each other for the non-passage of the Women Reservation amendment bill in Lok Sabha recently. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed the nation on the issue and the ruling BJP is organising protest rallies in all parts of the country on the subject. The opposition Congress however has accused the BJP for spreading canard on the bill. The Congress leaders claim that the real intent of Narendra Modi government behind bringing the constitutional amendment bill in Lok Sabha was to impose a divisive delimitation on the country in the guise of the women reservation. They say that the attempts to fiddle with the federal structure and constitution has received a setback in the Lok Sabha and it has made the party and its leaders panicky. The Congress leaders point out that the Women reservation bill which was passed unanimously by both houses of the parliament in 2023 and the government should implement it immediately.
