The beauty of Parliamentary Democracy is the privilege of those voters who did not vote for the government and yet retained their right to equal treatment by the government.
Centenarian Makaradhwaja Pradhan was elected to the Odisha Assembly in 1952, the very first election of the independent India. He had won from Ambabhana-Mura Assembly Constituency in the undivided Sambalpur district.
Why should a Legislator get a highly liberal remuneration package when the Assembly sits for only 40 days in a year?- is a very valid reaction of a tax payer.
The opposition Congress and BJP members stormed into the the well of the House and raised slogans against the ruling BJD-government.
The BJP members also staged a sit-in ridiculing the state government for its total failure in assisting farmers during their difficult times.
Speaker of the Odisha Assembly on Friday adjourned the House in successive occasion following pandemonium over farmers’ issues and crop insurance. As the House assembled at 11 am on the second day of the Winter Session, the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress stormed into the well of the House and created a ruckus over crop insurance issue.
Launching broadside against the government and condemning its standpoint on farmers’ issues, the members of the Opposition including the BJP and Congress staged a demonstration in the House, stalling the proceedings of the House.
The Opposition including the BJP and Congress demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleging he has turned a mute spectator of the Archana Nag case.
The winter session of Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) begun on Thursday in Bhubaneswar. The inaugural day of the session saw members paying tributes to six deceased members in the Assembly.
Forest and Environment Minister Pradip Kumar Amat presented the budget on behalf of Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari who was absent in the Assembly on Thursday.
The deceased members included Padampur MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha and Dhamnagar MLA, Bishnu Charan Sethi. Other members who were paid tributes to are Golak Nayak, Kapil Tiwary, Gopanarayan Das and Adikanda Sethi.
The Odisha Assembly Legislative Advisory Committee is considering the growing demands of salary hikes of the legislators.
The winter session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly will begin on November 24. The parliamentary affairs department has issued an official notification in this regard. As per the provisional calendar of sittings, the winter session of the State Assembly will continue till December 31. The session will have 33 working days.
The statement was given by the state tourism minister Ashwini Patra in the Monsoon Session of the Odisha Assembly on Monday.
The amount of Rs 38,732 crore towards capital outlay is 5.4 per cent of the GSDP. This allocation is more by 56 per cent in comparison to the previous fiscal, Pujari said, adding that many reformative measures are taken in this budget which aimed to ensure the proper implementation of 'Mo sarkar' (my government) and 5-T initiatives of the state government.
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