Speaker Dinesh Oraon strongly objected to the Opposition's demand of adjourning the House over the 6th State Civil Services examination for which the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has announced schedules even as an all-party committee is examining the alleged discrepancies in the 5th State Civil Services examination results.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) wanted to bring an Adjournment Motion in the House as they deemed that the upcoming examinations are not justified.
Oraon said, “If an adjournment motion is rejected once and it is brought again by other member, then this practice will not stop anywhere and it will become a never ending practice.”
Oraon castigated the Opposition for not respecting House’s decision and holding the House to ransom for few minutes in the first half of proceeding every day. The Speaker condemned the Opposition’s disruptive tactics to corner Government on an issue which has been forwarded to a committee formed by the House. Chit chat over the propriety of the committee formed by the House irked the Speaker further evoking strong reactions from him. Oraon expressed that any question over the House authority to form a committee qualifies as contempt.
“A committee has been formed and let the committee look at the matter comprehensively. If a committee is formed by the House and if a member of the House questions its propriety, then this is the contempt of the House. What is the point in running this House,” asserted the Speaker.
Earlier, leader of Opposition Hemant Soren raised the issue of 6th State Civil Services examination announced by JPSC as he also questioned the State Government’s intention for not coming clean on the matter, especially when a committee is still examining the alleged discrepancies in the 5th State Civil Services examination.
“This is a matter of the 6th JPSC. Our students will lose if the examination is conducted on the same pattern. Date has been declared. The Minister must cancel the date of examination,” maintained Soren.
Although the Opposition persisted on an explanation on the issue, the State government turned down the demand and pointed at lukewarm response by committee members to the government's efforts for convening a meeting to discuss the issue.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saryu Roy toiled hard to convince the Opposition about the scope of the committee and assured that the suggestion put forth by the committee would apply to all state civil services examinations that will be conducted in future by JPSC.
“Government has no qualms in taking steps in the interest of the people. 6th JPSC examination will be conducted on the previous rules. I can assure you that the Government is not going to change rules. The committee will be suggesting changes in all examinations that will be conducted by JPSC and it just not about 5th and 6th civil services examination," added Roy.
Meanwhile, the JVM threatened to walk out of the committee if the upcoming examination is not cancelled and then re-scheduled on the pattern suggested by the all-party committee formed to evolve consensus among all the political parties.
"Cancel the examination then discuss the issue further. We will give our recommendations for the 5th and 6thJPSC otherwise we are ready to walk out of the committee," said JVM leader Pradeep Yadav.
The JVM held the opinion that discrepancies in the 6thJPSC are the same as in 5th JPSC and also raised the issue of reservation for other backward caste in the 6thJPSC examination.
Assembly 1: Speaker Dinesh Oraon conducting businesson Tuesday in the Assembly. pic by Ratan lal