Puducherry Assembly Adjourned Sine Die After Holding Session for 24 Minutes

The Puducherry Assembly which met right here on Friday was adjourned sine die after holding a session for 24 minutes. The House handed the calls for for further grants for the yr 2022-2023 sought by Chief Minister N Rangasamy and his cupboard colleagues for their respective departments.

The House additionally handed the Appropriation Bill tabled by the Chief Minister.

Earlier, the Speaker R Selvam made an obituary reference as quickly because the House commenced proceedings concerning the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The Speaker paid glowing tributes to the Queen who died on September 8, 2022. All the legislators stood in silence for a few minutes in reminiscence of the late queen.

After obituary reference, all of the six opposition DMK members led by the legislature get together chief R Siva who got here dressed at school uniforms and carried luggage to symbolically present that college college students have been but to obtain uniforms, urged the federal government to return out with a decision on statehood for Puducherry.

Siva stated that it was certainly “a pity that the elected government in Puducherry had no power even to decide the transfer of officials.” Another DMK member A M H Nazeem said democracy was made a mockery in Puducherry with the elected government “being bereft of powers.”

He said the government should come out with a resolution to assert full statehood to Puducherry. Independent member G Nehru registered his strong protest against posting of an IAS officer as Commissioner of Puducherry Municipality virtually without the knowledge of the government and demanded that statehood be granted to Puducherry.

At one point, all the DMK legislators shouted ”we wish statehood and Puducherry shouldn’t be hoodwinked on the statehood challenge.”

The Speaker repeatedly requested the members to stay calm and his appeals, nevertheless, weren’t heeded.

The DMK members staged a walkout for some time and returned to the House a couple of minutes later. The two Congress members within the House additionally staged a walkout a couple of minutes earlier than the DMK members did so.

The House adopted the Appropriation Bill tabled by the Chief Minister. The Speaker introduced adjournment of the House sine die. The session lasted for 24 minutes.

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