PANJIM: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Goa on Monday submitted a memorandum to Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai requesting him not to assent the government bills passed in the recently concluded Assembly session without discussion and to remove restrictions on LAQs and to ensure lengthy sessions.
The AAP stated that since Pramod Sawant became the Chief Minister, he passed a number of important bills with far-reaching consequences in a complete hurry and without proper discussion or debate. He has not constituted a single Select Committee in the past three years and has ignored valid demands to further scrutinise contentious Bills before their passage.
“Bills were not produced to MLAs to give them sufficient time to study them. In all seven bills were passed in a short duration of two hours in the final part of the last day of the session despite valid objections raised by the members,” AAP said. The delegation appealed to the Governor not to give his assent to these bills and to refer them back to the Legislative Assembly for clause-by-clause examination by Select Committees.
The AAP in the memorandum stated that unprecedented and arbitrary restrictions have been placed on MLAs privileges such as the recent directions by the Speaker that information under LAQs may be asked only for the past five years, Many issues have been long pending for than five years and importantly the same BJP government has been in power for the last more than 11 years. This shows that even though the governance is a continuous process, the Sawant government want to avoid questions about their own past performances and failures.
