MLA Meghachandra seeks amendment to BAC rules
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, July 25 2022: Observing that formation of Business Advisory Committee (BAC) has violated the existing rules, Congress MLA K Meghachandra sought a time schedule for proper discussion on the matter since continuing the proceedings before amending the rules will tantamount to undermining the existing rules.

Forest and Environment minister Th Biswajit tabled the second report of the BAC 2022 on the first day of the second session of Manipur Legislative Assembly on Monday.

Moving a motion on the report, MLA Meghachandra said that a notification for the sitting of the BAC was issued on July 11.As per Rule 266(1) of BAC, the maximum number of members of BAC should be nine including the speaker and deputy speaker.

Speaker should be the ex-officio chairman of the committee and it should mandatorily have the deputy speaker as its member, as per the rules.

However, the House has not appointed the deputy speaker yet and absence of the deputy speaker from the committee is a violation of the rules.

Upon studying rules of other states, most of the states do not make membership of the deputy speaker mandatory in the committee.

The state could also adopt a similar approach in order to avoid violation of rules, he said while drawing attention of the House members to discuss on the mater.

In response, speaker Th Satyabrata acknowledged the suggestion of the opposition member and invited suggestions and opinions in this regard.

Later, the House allowed to move the motion.

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