Ahead of the brief Winster session starting Thursday, Speaker of UP Assembly Hriday Naryan Dikshit appealed to all Opposition parties to extend their co-operation for peaceful conduct of the House.
The Speaker made the appeal during a meeting of leaders of all parties including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in lucknow on Wednesday. Chief Minister also appealed to the Opposition to extend their cooperation for smooth conduct of the House.
Diokshit said that the Assembly was a forum for debate where members could raise issues but they should follow Parliamentary dignity and decorum.
He said that there were meant to be arguments and counter arguments, agreement and disagreement in a democratic political system, but there was a point where both viewpoints meet which strengthens the democracy.
"This House decides the destiny of 22 crore people of Uttar Pradesh and members of the House raise issues only related to people's welfare. Even if they were angry with government’s response, the only alternative before them was to raise the matter in the House,’’ said the Speaker.
In his address, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, "The government is committed to positive debates on maximum number of issues to be raised by Opposition parties.’’
"We should refrain from making personal attacks on each other and trading of charges on the floor of the House and instead participate in debate within the framework of Parliamentary dignity and decorum. After all, the aim of all members of the House is the welfare of common people,’’ said Yogi.
leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary (SP), lalji Verma of Bahujan Samaj Party, Ajay Kumar of Congress, Neel Ratan Patel of Apna Dal and Om Prakash Rajbhar of Suheldeo Samaj Party also expressed their views in the meeting and assured of their cooperation for peaceful conduct of House proceedings.
later, the Speaker said that the Business Advisory Committee has approved the agenda and the House would have seven sittings till December 22.