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Belagavi: Poor start to winter session, speaker adjourns House for lack of quorum

  •   Mon, Nov 13 2017 07:00:19 PM

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Belagavi, Nov 13: The brief 10-day winter session of the Karnataka Legislature at the Belagavi Suvarna Vidhana Soudha got off to an embarrassing start with Legislative Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad, briefly adjourning the session at the outset itself, on Monday.

Normally, before the commencement of the session, the quorum bell is switched on to alert the members in the lobby or holding private discussions outside to enter the House as under the rules at least a tenth or 23 members out of the total strength of 224 must be present before the commencement.

The quorum bell is switched off only after the required number of members are present and the Speaker takes the chair afterwards. However, when the Speaker came to the House, he adjourned the House upon finding that there was no sufficient quorum.

As soon as Koliwad entered the House on the opening day of the winter session, he adjourned the House saying, "It is unfortunate that there are no sufficient members. I adjourn the House till there is quorum."

Koliwad's decision took the treasury benches as well as the Opposition members by surprise, though the Opposition BJP and JD(S) members were enjoying the piquant situation.

"The Speaker has a lot of anger against the government," BJP member S Suresh Kumar said obviously referring to the State Government’s decision of slashing grants for the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Vidhana Soudha from the proposed Rs 27 crore submitted by the legislature secretariat to mere Rs 10 crore.

"Yes, it is evident that he wants to settle scrores," quipped JD(S) member YSV Datta.

Energy Minister D K Shivakumar wondered aloud why the Speaker had not checked that necessary number of MLAs were present before switching off the quorum bell.

The House, however, met a little later after the quorum requirement was met but the attendance continued to be poor.
  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mangalore

    Tue, Nov 14 2017

    Their Salaries should depend on Attendence 😁😁😁

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  • Rampanna, Udupi

    Tue, Nov 14 2017

    I would also like to have a job like these MLA's. Whether you do your job or not, you still get paid your monthly salary and benefits.

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Mon, Nov 13 2017

    After the Election Commission delayed announcing dates for Gujarat polls, reports suggest BJP wants to avoid being cornered in the House.
    Parliamentary rules state that dates for an upcoming session have to be notified 15 days before it begins, to give Members of Parliament enough time to make their way to Delhi. As of November 9, dates for the winter session are yet to be made public. This means, at the very least, the third Session of the calendar year, which traditionally begins in the last third of November, will be pushed to December. If some murmurs in Delhi are to be believed, it may not even happen at all.
    the government was considering either conducting a shorter winter session or calling it off altogether. Official rules state that Parliament has to meet every six months, and the last session ended on August 11, so that would technically give the government until February. But convention for decades now has been to have three sessions in a calendar year, Budget at the start, monsoon usually in July and August and winter over November and December. In 2016, for example, the Winter Session began on November 16.
    The reason given? Gujarat. Specifically state assembly elections in Gujarat, which goes to the polls in two phases on December 9 and December 14.

    This is primarily due to the twin economic hits of demonetisation, now generally believed to have failed, and the botched roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax. To add to that, several key communities in the state have decided to go against the BJP, though it has ruled the state for two decades now.
    Is BJP so worried about Gujarat that it has to postpone (or cancel) Parliament’s winter session?
    Jai Hind

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  • mahesh, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 13 2017

    Whichever party they belong to, strict action should be taken against non attending MLAs

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  • RUDOLPH, MANGALORE

    Mon, Nov 13 2017

    MANY MLA ARE BUSY IN ELECTION RALLIES

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