Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma while launching a two-day orientation programme for the elected members of the fourteenth Assembly of the State on Saturday said, “The members of the legislative Assembly should utilise their time in the interests of the people as the people have great expectations from the leaders they elect and to meet their expectations time should be utilised in doing maximum good of the people.”
Sharma further said that through the orientation programmes, the members of the House are made aware of the parliamentary knowledge, procedures, and traditions in details. The members should take advantage of this to carry forward the proud tradition of the Assembly, he added.
He said that the tradition of honouring best Minister and Assembly member would be continued in the future also.
leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Satyadev Katare, deputy speaker Rajendra Kumar Singh, former Union Minister Vikram Verma and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra were also present on the occasion.
Earlier the guests inaugurated the two-day programme by lightning ceremonial lamp. Principal Secretary of the Assembly Bhagwandev Israni welcomed the guests by presenting them flower bouquets and took their introduction. He informed that the orientation programs started in the year 1985 and this was the seventh such programme.
leader of Opposition Satyadev Katare in his address said that the orientation programs play important role in increasing the proud of the legislature. Through these programmes, the newly elected members come to know about the proposal to be tabled in the interest of the people, attention motions and other procedures of the Assembly, he added.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra read out the greeting message of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in which the Chief Minister expressed his inability to attend the programme due to President Pranab Mukherjee’s State visit.