Karnataka House panel recommends suspension of 15 Oppn MLAs for ruckus
PTI
Bangalore, 13 January 2011: A Karnataka Assembly committee, which looked into the unruly conduct of legislators during the trust vote of the BJP government on October 11 last year, has recommended suspension of 15 Congress and Janata Dal (S) MLAs from membership of the House.
The panel, set up by the Speaker K G Bopaiah, recommended suspension of eight MLAs from membership for a year and seven MLAs for six months for varying reasons -- from indulging in unruly behaviour by disobeying all House rules and procedures, showing disrespect to the Speaker, to curbing the rights of other members, among others.
In its 287-page report tabled in the House today, the panel headed by M P Appachu Ranjan of BJP, recommended suspension of Rahim Khan, Kakaso Panduranga Patil, U T Khader, N A Harris, (all Congress) B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, H C Balakrishna, C S Puttaraju, M T Krishnappa (all JD-S) for one year.
It recommended suspension of B K Sangamesh, Suresh Gowda, P M Ashok, H P Manjunath, (all Congress), Bandeppa Kashempur, K Raju and K P Bache Gowda (all JD-S) for six months.
Bopaiah had constituted the seven-member House Committee to submit a report recommending suitable action against the 15 opposition MLAs (Congress – 8 and JD(S) – 7), identified for the "ruckus" in the Assembly during the October 11 trust vote.
The Speaker constituted the committee while acting on a petition filed by BJP members, who alleged that the Congress and JD(S) MLAs lowered the dignity of the House by creating unruly scenes and used unparliamentary language against the Speaker during the trust vote, necessitated by the withdrawal of support to the government by 19 MLAs.
Comments on this Article | |
Benedict Noronha, Udupi | Thu, January-13-2011, 10:35 |
I am sorry to state that the BSY Government has thrown all the rules and procedures to Winds and formed the House Panel and decided to suspend the MLA s. It is all bogus, humbug and ultra vires and the persons involved in this decision making should be prosecuted by the constitutional authority for flouting the Constitution. The so called authpority must be first suspended by protectors of Constitution before any further action on the MLAs. Enough is enough. There is a limit for unscrupulous acts on the Institution of Legislature. The Oppositions are wll within their rights. These elected Representatives must not be paid if they do not behave according to Law and rules. |