Rajya Sabha seat for Chandigarh: Congress MP Manish Tewari’s invoice more likely to be thought of in Finances Session
New Delhi, January 22
A personal member invoice by Congress MP Manish Tewari, looking for Chandigarh’s illustration within the Rajya Sabha, is more likely to be thought of within the Finances Session of Parliament.
The Invoice proposes to amend Article 80 of the Structure by including a clause {that a} consultant of the Union territory of Chandigarh within the Council of States shall be elected by an electoral school consisting of elected members of the Municipal Company of Chandigarh.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat stated the invoice may very well be taken up for consideration. The Finances Session of Parliament will start on January 31 and finish on April 6.
Tewari launched the invoice in Lok Sabha in the course of the Winter Session in December final yr. The MP from Anandpur Sahib had earlier stated that it’s his ethical duty to hunt a Rajya Sabha seat for Chandigarh, with which he has an emotional connection.
The Union Territories of Puducherry, Jammu and Kashmir and the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi discover illustration within the Rajya Sabha. Nevertheless, Ladakh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli – Daman and Diu, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep are unrepresented there.
Tewari was introduced up in Chandigarh and studied there. His father was a professor at Panjab College and was killed by terrorists in 1984. His mom retired as Director of PGI Chandigarh.
The previous Union minister has been elevating points regarding Chandigarh, such because the demolition of the town’s largest slum colony, and a proposal to privatise its electrical energy utility division. Not too long ago he additionally gave cash for establishing open-air gyms within the Union Territory from his MPLADS fund.