A total of 19 Bills were passed in the one day monsoon session of the Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday. The session during which the proceedings lasted a little more than three hours was attended by 42 MLAs in the House while 14 MLAs attended it virtually.
Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, cabinet ministers Madan Kaushik, Satpal Maharaj, Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey, State minister Rekha Arya, MLAs Munna Singh Chauhan, Mukesh Koli and other members were present in the House. Among the opposition members, Pritam Singh, Qazi Nizamuddin, Manoj Rawat, Mamta Rakesh and independent member Pritam Singh Panwar were present in the House.
Addressing the media later, cabinet minister and State government spokesman Madan Kaushik said that earlier during the meeting of the business advisory committee, Karan Mahra and Govind Singh Kunjwal of the Congress had stated that they would bring a work adjournment motion to discuss four issues- the Covid-19 pandemic as a disaster, law and order situation, unemployment and price rise. “However, as soon as the proceedings began, the Congress MLAs from the other group raised ruckus.
They even questioned how Mahra and Kunjwal decided the issues to be discussed. The government wanted to reply on the four important issues in the House so that the public would also get to know what had been done by the government to address these issues.
Sadly, the Congress MLAs present in the House went to the extent of disrespecting their own members and prevented the House from functioning smoothly. All the Bills tabled by the government were passed after discussion by the Treasury benches members as the opposition members had left the House,” said Kaushik.
Total 18 bills passed. Vidhan Sabha members,The Uttarakhand {The Uttar Pradesh State Legislature (Officers Salaries and Allowances)} (Amendment) Bill 2020, The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill,2020, The Uttarakhand (Jaunsar-Bawar Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956) (Amendment) Bill, 2020, Uttarakhand GST (Amendment) Bill, Industrial Disputes (Uttarakhand Amendment) Bill, Factories (Uttarakhand Amendment) Bill and Uttarakhand State University Bill were among the Bills passed during the one-day session. The session was adjourned sine-die later in the evening.