Governor summons assembly session on Aug 29
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 22 2023:
In exercise of powers conferred by Clause (1) of Article 174 of the Constitution of India, Governor Anusuiya Uikey has summoned the 4th session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly at 11am of August 29 .
Consequently, Manipur Legislative Assembly secretary K Meghajit Singh has issued notification for convening the 4th session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly on August 29 with copies of the notification made available to all the members of the House.
The numbers of sittings or days for the session, however, will be decided by Business Advisory Committee of the assembly by convening a meet.
Speaker Th Satyabrata is chairman of the committee and its members include chief minister N Biren Singh, ministers Awangbow Newmai and Th Basanta Kumar, Opposition leader O Ibobi Singh, MLA Abdul Nasir and MLA N Kayisii.
Ahead of the session, chief minister N Biren Singh is expected to visit New Delhi in the coming few days and the Business Advisory Committee meet is likely to be convened after he returns from New Delhi.
Notably, the state cabinet in its meeting held late Monday evening decided to approach the Governor to summon 4th session of 12 Manipur Legislative Assembly on August 29.It may be mentioned here that the Congress had said that "constitutional crisis looms over Manipur" due to not holding of normal assembly session on time.
Former Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh had on August 20 slammed the BJP-led state government over delay in holding the state's assembly session.
Ibobi expressed dismay over the BJP-led government's 'inaction' to convene the assembly session, despite the state being rocked by violence and ethnic clashes over the past nearly four months.
He said: "It is only the Manipur government, who knows why the assembly session has not been convened yet, despite the cabinet, earlier, having decided to convene it on August 21" .
"Not holding assembly session on time, as prescribed by the Constitution, invites unprecedented Constitutional crisis," the former chief minister said.
He added: "The opposition, especially the Congress has time and again called for convening a special assembly session to discuss the unrest in Manipur" .