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| ‘PDP making a mountain out of mole’ | | No impropriety committed in returning Bill on RTI to CM, Experts | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 6
PDP leadership is being blamed for making a mountain out of a mole hill by trying to accuse Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) S.K.Sinha, of violating a set precedent while returning a bill on the Right to Information Act (RTI),adopted by the state Legislature, to the Chief Minister, instead to the Speaker, for reconsideration by the legislature. Constitutional experts are of the view that the Governor had not committed any impropriety by returning the bill to the Chief Minister on the plea that the Chief Minister being a leader of the House is a vital organ of the state legislature. These experts said that the Governor had the powers to return a bill for the reconsideration of the state legislature if he finds some lacuna in the bill, passed by the state legislature.
Inside reports said that the Governor had in his mind the treatment that was given to the bill on Panchayat Raj , adopted by the state legislature, which he had returned to the Speaker for reconsideration by the two Houses in 2005. The reports said that the bill, returned by the Governor with his comments and observation, had never been tabled in the Assembly for reconsideration.
These reports said that the Governor was keen to ensure that the bill on RTI, which he had returned for reconsideration by the state legislature, did not meet the same fate as was met by the bill on the Panchayati Raj. Accordingly the Governor is said to have returned the bill on RTI to the Chief Minister in the capacity of being the leader of the House to ensure that it was tabled for reconsideration in the light of observation and comments of the State’s Constitutional head. The Governor had no other motive for returning the bill to the Chief Minister instead of the Speaker.
Knowledgeable circles in the Government said that when the bill on Panchayat Raj was returned by the Governor to the Speaker for reconsideration by the state legislature it was the duty of Muzaffar Hussain Baig, who was the then Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs. |
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