Winter session of Punjab Assembly from November 28
A two-day winter session of Punjab Assembly will commence on 28 November. A decision to this effect was taken by the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Monday.
A two-day winter session of Punjab Assembly will commence on 28 November. A decision to this effect was taken by the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Monday.
Addressing a press conference, senior Akali leaders Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra and Dr Daljeet Singh Cheema said the Bill was passed at the behest of the “anti-Sikh” Arvind Kejriwal.
Now, a selection of the state DGP will be done by a committee headed by a retired chief justice or a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the Sikh Gurudwaras (Amendment) Bill, 2023 aims at freeing the undue control of a particular family (read Badals) over the rights to telecast sacred Gurbani.
If the Bill gets the Governor's consent, the Chief Minister would replace the Governor as the Chancellor of state-run universities.
We have decided to seek the confidence from the people of the state in this special session of Assembly, says Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The Punjab Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution opposing the Union government's move to change the status of Punjab University into a Central University.
LG approves a 66% hike in the Delhi MLA's salary Anjali Bhatia New Delhi, June 30 The Delhi Lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena approved a bill for a 66.67 percent salary hike for Delhi lawmakers on Thursday. The Delhi government has called a two-day session of the Delhi assembly from Monday where a bill on the revision of legislators’ salaries and allowances will be tabled and passed paving the way for the salary hike pending for nearly seven years. Earlier in May, the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA), had cleared it, paving the way for the revision. If the bill is passed, lawmakers in Delhi will get Rs 90,000 a month, up from the existing Rs 54,000, an official in the Delhi assembly told the media. “The LG has recently approved a proposal for increasing the salary and allowances of MLAs from the existing Rs 54,000 per month to Rs 90,000 per month. Accordingly, a bill for the hike of salary and allowances is likely to be tabled in the upcoming assembly session and passed,” added the official. The Delhi government in December 2015 proposed Rs 2.10 lakh a month as salary and allowances for the MLAs, but the MHA did not agree with the proposal. On May 5 this year the then LG Anil Baijal’s office forwarded a letter to the department of law, justice and legislative affairs of the Delhi government from the MHA regarding the salary revision.
Mann said the state government will soon introduce a witness protection Bill and modify jails of the state into high-security jails.
The ‘White Paper’ to be tabled in the state assembly is being described as an attempt to simplify the complex issues faced by the state government and apprise the common man of the liabilities the incumbent government has inherited from its successive governments.
