Union Cabinet,
chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 28 November 2013 approved a
proposal to create a Legislative Council in Assam.
According to the Article 169 of
Constitution of India, Parliament can create or abolish the Legislative
councils in States.
According to the proposal, the
Legislative Council will have 42 members. As per Article 171 of the
Constitution, the total number of members in the Council of a state having
such a House shall not exceed one third of the total number of members in the
Legislative Assembly of that state. In the case of Assam, the total number of
MLAs is 126.
The Assam state Legislative Assembly
had in 2005 and 2010 passed a resolution demanding an Upper House. Political
parties and groups believe that members of various communities and ethnic,
groups which could not be sent to the Assembly, can be accommodated in the
Council for a fair representation. Assam had an Upper House which was abolished
after Independence.
The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative
Council) is the upper house in the states of India that have a bicameral
legislature.
As of 2011, six Indian states viz. Andhra
Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh have
a Legislative Council.
A Bill to create a Legislative Council
in Rajasthan was introduced in Parliament recently and it is pending
with the Standing Committee.
Name
of the state
|
Number of seats in Legislative Assembly
|
Number of seats in Legislative Council
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
294
|
90
|
Bihar
|
243
|
75
|
Jammu and Kashmir
|
87
|
36
|
Karnataka
|
224
|
75
|
Maharashtra
|
288
|
78
|
Uttar
Pradesh
|
403
|
100
|
No comments:
Post a Comment