Rajasthan Cabinet seeks
House session on July 31
Revised proposal to Governor silent on confidence vote
Rejecting the conditions laid
down by Governor Kalraj
Mishra for holding the Assembly session, the Congress government in Rajasthan on Tuesday sent yet
another revised proposal to
Raj Bhavan to summon the
House for a sitting from July
31. The Cabinet note did not
mention if the government
would seek a vote of confi
dence during the session.
After the Governor twice
returned the Cabinet’s recommendation to the call
for an Assembly session, the
government sent in a third
proposal.
In his last missive on Monday, Mr. Mishra said only a
written undertaking on the
trust vote as an agenda of
the session could form the
basis for summoning the
House on short notice.
A Cabinet meeting, presided over by Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot at his official
residence here, deliberated
on the specific conditions
put forward by the Governor
for a 21day notice to enable
all MLAs to attend the proceedings, video recording
and live telecast if there is a
floor test and precautions
against the spread of COVID19 during the sitting.
No going back
According to official sources,
the new Cabinet note drafted in consultation with all
Ministers, did not mention
whether a vote of confi
dence would be sought during the session. The government has, however, insisted
that the session should begin on July 31, the date it proposed earlier. “The Cabinet
wants the Assembly session
from July 31. We are sticking
to our [original] demand,”
Transport Minister Pratap
Singh Khachariawas told reporters after the meeting.
He said the government
hoped that the Governor
would approve the proposal
while respecting the Constitution, which had clearly defined his role to function
with the aid and advice of
the Council of Ministers.
Mr. Khachariawas said the
government did not want
any confrontation with the
Governor and said the latter
could have set a date for the
session, as 10 days had already passed since the government proposed a sitting of
the Assembly.
Wanted to teach Gehlot
a lesson, says Mayawati
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
had “unconstitutionally”
merged all six MLAs of the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
with the Congress in
Rajasthan, and he did the
same in his earlier tenure
too, for which “we wanted
to teach him and his party a
lesson”, BSP chief Mayawati
said on Tuesday.
“In Rajasthan, after the
election results, the BSP
gave unconditional support
of all its six MLAs to the
Congress. Unfortunately,
Mr. Gehlot, out of his
malicious intent and to
damage the BSP, merged
them with the Congress
unconstitutionally,” Ms.
Mayawati said here.
“The BSP could have
gone to court earlier but we
were looking for the time to
teach the Congress and
Ashok Gehlot a lesson. Now
we have decided to go to
court... We will go even to
the Supreme Court.” She
reiterated that the party had
asked the six MLAs to vote
against the Congress
government if a trust vote
takes place in the Rajasthan
Assembly, failing which
“their party membership
will be cancelled”.
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