Idea of Parliamentary Secretaries opposed
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Imphal, May 04 2012: Manipur People's Party (MPP) has ridiculed the Manipur government decision to have Parliamentary Secretaries.

The regional party said the decision of the Manipur cabinet to have Parliamentary Secretaries will serve nothing good except to burden on the state government exchequer.

Speaking to the media today, W Hemanta who is the general secretary of MPP said that his party strongly opposes to have Parliamentary Secretaries in Manipur.

"The posts of Parliamentary Secretaries are created with the sole objective of appeasing those MLAs who did not get the cabinet ministerial berths," said the MPP general secretary.

The MPP leader also said that creating the Parliamentary Secretaries will neither bring good governance nor can it change the farce state of affairs.

"If it is the case of a coalition government then one can understand that creating the Parliamentary Secretary posts is to save the government from falling, but look at, the ruling Congress party ha 42 MLAs in the 60-member house," reasons W Hemanta.

It can be noted that few days ago, the cabinet meeting under the chairmanship of chief minister O Ibobi Singh had agreed to pass an Act for Manipur Parliamentary Secretaries (salary allowance and the matureness) ordinance 2012 .

In that cabinet meeting it had resolved to give its approval for Manipur Parliamentary Secretary (salary allowance and matureness) ordinance Act 2012, at the earliest taking into consideration the urgency of the Act.

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