Buckling under the pressure of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the state government has extended the ongoing monsoon session by two days. The decision was taken in the Business Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday.
Senior official in the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat told The Pioneer that all parties unanimously decided to extend the session by two days. “It will now continue till August 25,” the official said. In the earlier schedule, the sitting was slated till August 21.
The BJP had staged a dharna inside the well of the House for over eight hours after adjournment of the House for the day on Mondaydemanding that this session should be of 10 days The party again raised this issue through Point of Propriety.
leader of BJP legislature Party in Vidhan Sabha Suresh Khanna said that rule 14 of the Procedure for Conduct of Vidhan Sabha proceedings required that the government should summon the House once every two month for a tenure of minimum 10 days.
“The government had summoned the House after four months and 14 days. Going by the rule book, the House should be held for a minimum 20 days. But the government summoned it for just six days,” he said.
Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey said that the issue could be best dealt with in the Business Advisory Committee meeting and the committee would take a final call.