Even though the ongoing Winter Session of the Karnataka Assembly is very dull and passive, an amendment to the legislators’ salary and pension has cheered them up as the Bill even allows a disqualified legislator to draw pension.
The Karnataka legislature Salaries, Pension and Allowance (Amendment) Bill 2014 was on Tuesday passed by a voice vote amid cheering. The Bill was moved by law and Parliamentary Affairs TB Jayachandra which comes into retrospective effect since 1990.
The amendment to Bill which reads, “where the election of a legislator is set aside by the court in an election petition due to technical reason not attributed to such legislator such as inclusion of certain voters in the voters list after issue of notification of election by the Election Commission of India to Provide such legislator pension.”
In fact in 2012, an amendment to the legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 2 of 1957), was brought during the BJP Government to increase the pension of legislators to Rs 25,000 per month with other perks and facilities.