KL Desk
Jammu
Accusing Chairman Legislative Council of bringing intra party affairs to the Legislative Council and using National Conference to fire the gun, leader of National Conference in J&K Legislative Council, Ajay Sadhotra said that the chairman being the head of the Legislative Council has to be non partisan
“It will be inappropriate on his part to bring intra party affairs to the Legislative Council and then fire the gun from the shoulders of the National Conference which is committed to probity and accountability in public life, Sadhotra said in a statement.
Explaining Party position on the dissolution of house committee, Sadhotara said that Chairman Legislative Council constituted the committee to probe into the allegations of illegal possession of forest land in Sedow, Shopian by Taj Mohi-ud-Din, without consulting the major political party in the Legislative Council – National Conference and has dissolved the same also without taking National Conference on board.
“The onus of this decision either to constitute or dissolve the committee both lies with none other than the chairman of the Legislative Council,” Said Sadhotra.
Sadhotra blamed chairman of taking arbitrary and unilateral decision resulting in confrontation, misunderstanding and chaos.
“The essence of the Parliamentary democracy is in consultation, confabulation and decision after deliberation and consensus,” he said
He said while it is true that two members of National Conference Shri Khalid Najeeb Suhrawardy and Dr. Bashir Ahmed Veeri resigned from the committee because they had certain issues with the form, content and method of the constitution of the committee, but they never suggested dissolution of the committee.
Reacting to the assertion of the chairman of the J&K Legislative Council in the order that with the resignation of the two National Conference members the House Committee become practically infructuous, Sadhotra said inspite of the resignation of the two National Conference members the quorum of the committee was complete and the committee could have gone ahead with the probe with three members.
