Chandigarh: The legislator of Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday walked out of Punjab Vidhan Sabha. The legislator of AAP Aman Arora had submitted ‘The Punjab Unseating of Members of Legislative Assembly found indulging in Conflict of Interest Bill 2018’ in Vidhan Sabha, that was rejected by the Governor.
Co-President of Aam Aadmi Party and MLA from Sunam Aman Arora had few days back submitted a Private Member Bill namely ‘The Punjab Unseating of Members of Legislative Assembly found indulging in Conflict of Interest Bill 2018’ to the Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Rana KP Singh, seeking his permission to table it in the forthcoming Budget Session.
Under the proposed bill, any elected representative, be it the CM, Ministers and the MLA’s shall be liable for disqualification and hence unseated ,within a period of 6 months, if found involved indulging in the Conflict of Interest Act, which means any MLA found furthering his own private interests, financial or commercial, directly or indirectly, at the cost of interest of the State, shall be unseated. Arora had contended that Mafias like that of Mining, Liquor, Transport, Cable, Power, Irrigation, Construction, Real estate etc would never had come into existence, had this law been in place.
Addressing the media outside vidhan sabha, Arora questioned the Govt. has not taken any step towards this direction, as contrary to its other pre election promises, this Act will not entail any financial expenditure and rather will be useful in preventing its loot by the politicians . He expressed his displeasure the way politicians have flourished over the years pushing the State into the debt trap of more than 2.5lac crores today.
For this purpose, Arora had suggested a 5 member Commission, headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court or High Court and members with eminence from the fields of law, economics, Journalism, Defence, education, Health etc for a period of 6 years, all to be appointed by a 5 member select committee comprising of the Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, 2nd Senior most judge of the High Court, CM, Speaker and LoP.
In his communication to the Speaker, Arora while reminding the Speaker about the election promise of the ruling Congress which as per him in it’s Manifesto, had promised to bring in this legislation, but even at the passage of a year, 3 Assembly sessions and numerous Cabinet meetings, Govt. seems to have burried it’s intent leading to unabated continuation of fleecing of Public resources at the cost of Public Exchequer as had been giving on during the previous Govt.