Rajasthan govt to send a revised proposal to Governor requesting for Assembly session
Jaipur: The
Rajasthan Cabinet is likely
to meet again on Saturday
to revise
a
proposal
to be sent
to
Governor Kalraj Mishra
requesting him
to convene
a
session of the
Assembly.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, facing
a revolt by some Congress MLAs led by Sachin Pilot, chaired
a meeting of the Cabinet on Friday night
to discuss the points raised by the
governor on its earlier
proposal.
"Discussions on the points raised by the
governor with regard
to calling the
Assembly
session were held in the meeting last night,"
a source said, adding that the Cabinet is likely
to meet again on Saturday.
A
revised
proposal will be forwarded
to the
governor after approval by the Cabinet.
The Congress government is pushing
for
a
session of the
Assembly so that the chief minister can prove his majority on the floor of the House after the
Rajasthan High Court on Friday ordered that status quo should be maintained on the disqualification notices sent out by the Speaker
to Pilot and 18 other MLAs.
The
Governor on Friday asked the Ashok Gehlot government why it wanted
to call an
Assembly
session
to secure
a vote of confidence if it already had the majority.
The
governor posed the query in
a six-point questionnaire entailing
a note sent by the Raj Bhawan
to the state Parliament Affairs Department, the Raj Bhawan said in
a statement.
In his note
to the state government,
Governor Mishra emphasised that “no one is above the Constitutional dignity and no pressure politics should be resorted
to.”
He also pointed out that neither had any date
for convening the
session been mentioned in the Cabinet note, annexed with the government's request, nor had the Cabinet given its approval
to it.
The government has neither given any reason
for calling the
session on such
a short notice nor proposed any agenda
for it, said the
governor, pointing out that
a 21-day notice is mandatory
for calling an
Assembly
session.
In the statement, the Raj Bhawan added that
Governor Mishra had also asked the government “
to ensure the independence and freedom of movement of all members of the legislative
assembly”.
On Friday, the chief minister said that
a letter was forwarded
to the
governor on Thursday night
for calling the
session, but he had not taken any decision on it.
Congress MLAs loyal
to Gehlot on Friday held
a five-hour sit-in at the Raj Bhawan
to press
for an
Assembly
session.
The Congress said it ended the sit-in following an assurance from the
Governor that he will abide by Article 174 of the Constitution, after getting some clarifications from the CM. The provision deals with the
Governor's role in summoning
a
session of the
assembly.