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Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu has stated that the salaries and allowances of nationalist representatives should beryllium chopped for not attending the Assembly sessions and it indispensable beryllium followed by a much drastic measurement of ‘sending them backmost to the people’s court’ by enabling voters to callback their representatives.
This should beryllium done by amending the Constitution and the Representation of People Act (RPA), if the concern warrants, helium suggested.
The Speaker was hinting astatine the continuous lack of 11 MLAs of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), including Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, from the Assembly and the consequences thereof.
Addressing the 86th All India Conference of Presiding Officers connected the taxable Accountability of Legislature towards the People successful the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday, Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu said the nonaccomplishment of immoderate MLAs to be a azygous league oregon enactment successful a azygous statement since their predetermination successful June 2024 was astir regrettable.
“The information that these MLAs person been drafting their salaries and allowances successful absentia is causing large pain,” helium observed and questioned however specified behaviour and unethical behaviour could beryllium justified.
“Since determination are nary circumstantial rules to prohibit specified behaviour, I petition the Lok Sabha Speaker to amusement america a mode forward. I volition question proposal from my chap Speakers arsenic it is not conscionable an contented for the Andhra Pradesh Legislature. The nationalist volition usage these examples to overgarment each elected representatives with the aforesaid brush,” helium noted.
Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu said the Constitution has designed the Legislative strategy to relation with utmost transparency and it is often compared to a ‘glass house’ owed to the visibility of everything happening inside. “Any strategy that lacks transparency cannot beryllium held accountable to the people,” helium pointed out.
He further said that formulating laws done treatment connected Bills, debating nationalist issues, bringing urgent matters of nationalist value to the government’s announcement and holding the authorities answerable to the radical were immoderate of the halfway functions of the Legislative system.
“Despite having profound responsibilities and powers, the nationalist spot successful their representatives is diminishing time by day, calling for superior introspection and efforts not to perpetrate errors that would marque the radical look down upon the MLAs,” helium said.
The Speaker said that portion the colonisation and people’s problems are expanding exponentially, the fig of moving days of Legislatures had been decreasing.
“Keeping this successful view, Legislatures should relation for astatine slightest 60 days a year. Only done predominant meetings of the House, the MLAs tin clasp the authorities accountable,” helium added.
