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The Legislative Assembly connected Tuesday adopted the Greater Bengaluru Governance (Second Amendment) Bill, 2025, that seeks to see members of the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha, the Legislative Assembly, and the Legislative Council arsenic members of the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) if they travel nether its jurisdiction.
Piloting the Bill, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said names of immoderate of the elected representatives including Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murthy and Chickballapur MP K. Sudhakar had been near retired from the GBA arsenic its members, though they came nether the GBA jurisdiction. The projected amendment would supply for adding their names.
Ex-officio members
It is besides aimed astatine including Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary to Urban Development Department, and Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary to Finance Department arsenic ex-officio members of the GBA.
The Bill besides provides for inclusion of ACS to Urban Development Department arsenic a subordinate of the Executive Committee of the GBA.
It besides provides for re-division of wards successful respect to recently incorporated section areas to beryllium carried retired wrong a specified period.
The Deputy Chief Minister agreed to the proposition by the Opposition members to driblet the proviso for appointing nominated members to the GBA.
Earlier, BJP subordinate S. Suresh Kumar said: “There are 369 members successful the GBA. If the authorities adds 1 nominated idiosyncratic for each 20,000 population, determination would beryllium different 369 members. This would make confusion.”
Changing houses
The Deputy Chief Minister besides endorsed the views of Leader of the Opposition R. Ashok that the inclination of Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council members often changing their addresses to summation voting rights successful antithetic section bodies should beryllium discouraged.
