{"id":39516,"date":"2022-05-06T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/?p=39516"},"modified":"2022-05-06T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:44:44","slug":"election-of-k-s-sandhwan-as-speaker-of-16th-punjab-assembly-notified-in-state-gazette-after-7-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/election-of-k-s-sandhwan-as-speaker-of-16th-punjab-assembly-notified-in-state-gazette-after-7-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION OF K.S. SANDHWAN AS SPEAKER OF 16th PUNJAB ASSEMBLY\u00a0 NOTIFIED IN STATE\u00a0GAZETTE AFTER 7 WEEKS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ADVOCATE RAISED THE ISSUE ON MAY 1 AFTER WHICH VIDHAN SABHA SECTT ISSUED NOTIFICATION ON MAY 4, 2022<\/b><\/div>\n
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CHANDIGARH, 6 MAY, (Press Ki Taquat Bureau)\u00a0 –\u00a0 Days after an Advocate at Punjab & Haryana High Court, Hemant Kumar, raised the issue regarding non-issuance\/non-publication of Notification in Punjab Government Gazette regarding Election of current 16th Punjab Legislative Assembly Speaker, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, who got elected as such on March 21, 2022, the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat on May 4, 2022 has got the Notification in this regard published in State Gazette i.e. over seven weeks after Sandhwan’s election as Speaker.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Although the notification regarding Election of Sandhwan as Speaker was uploaded on official website of Punjab Assembly but it was not published in State’s Official Gazette which should have been done immediately since Speaker of State Legislative Assembly is a Constitutional Post under Article 178 of Constitution of India and Election of a MLA to that post ought to be notified\/published immediately in the Gazette. Hemant also wrote in his letter that five years back, when Rana KP Singh of Congress was elected Speaker of then 15th Punjab Assembly\u00a0 on 27 March 2017, the Gazette Notification in Punjab Government Gazette was published the same day.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Be that as it may, the\u00a0<\/b>current 16th Punjab Legislative Assembly was duly constituted with effect from\u00a0 March 11, 2022 after issuance of statutory notification by Election Commission of India (ECI) under Section 73 of Representation of the People Act, 1951.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Its First Session was however summoned via a Gazette Notification dated\u00a0 March 16, 2022 issued\u00a0 under Article 174(1) of Constitution of India\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0 Banwari Lal Purohit,\u00a0 Governor of Punjab\u00a0<\/b>on (& from) March 17, 2022 i.e.\u00a0 after Bhagwant Mann took Oath of Office and Secrecy as Chief Minister of Punjab. However, 10 Cabinet Ministers were inducted in Mann’s Cabinet\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0 April 19\u00a0 2022. i.e. a couple of<\/b>\u00a0days after all of them took Oath as MLAs in the House on\u00a0 March 17, 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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After administering of Oath to all newly elected MLAs\u00a0 by Pro tem Speaker, Inderbir Singh Nijjar, who is AAP MLA from Amritsar South, there was election of Sardar Kultar Singh Sandhwan, AAP MLA from Kotkapura as regular Speaker of Punjab Assembly\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0 March 21, 2022<\/b>. It was followed by passage of\u00a0 two Bills viz. Punjab Appropriation Bill, 2022 and Punjab Appropriation (Vote on Account) Bill, 2022 in the House. Thereafter on March 22, 2022 the House was adjourned sine-die by newly elected Speaker Sandhwan which was further re-convened on April 1, 2022 for a special one day Session after which it was again adjourned sine-die by Speaker Sandhwan at the conclusion of its Sitting the same day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile,\u00a0 Hemant points out that the<\/b>\u00a0House was finally\u00a0<\/b>prorogued by the Order of\u00a0 Governor of Punjab\u00a0 issued under Article 174(2)(a) of Constitution of India on 16th April 2022.\u00a0<\/b>However, Gazette Notification regarding such prorogation was\u00a0 published two days later in Punjab Government Gazette Extraordinary on 18th April, 2022 by Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat for the reasons best known to its officials.<\/b><\/div>\n
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In between, on April 13, 2022, Bhagwant Mann\u00a0<\/b>Cabinet\u00a0 approved the Punjab Rural Development (Amendment) Ordinance which is however yet to be promulgated by Governor even after passage of over 3 weeks.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Hemant has\u00a0 raised an objection both with Government of Punjab as well as Punjab Raj Bhawan over the timing of approval of aforesaid Ordinance since Punjab Assembly was very much in Session on April 13, 2022 since it was not prorogued on that day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Prorogation means formal discontinuance of meetings (Session) of the House by the State\u00a0<\/b>Governor<\/b><\/span>\u00a0by issuing a formal Order\u00a0 which is different from adjourning the House sine-dine, which however is ordered by the Speaker.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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L<\/b>egally (read constitutionally) speaking, no\u00a0 Ordinance can be either approved by the State Government (Cabinet) or even promulgated by the Governor whilst Assembly is in Session\u00a0 since the very first constitutional requirement for promulgation of Ordinance under Article 213 of Constitution of India is that the State Legislative Assembly should not be in session<\/b>, asserts Hemant.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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Till date, there has been no satisfactory reply neither from the Punjab Government nor Punjab Raj Bhawan in this regard although Hemant got an email from Chief Minister’s Office a few weeks back from where he came to know that the point raised by him has however been referred to concerned higher authorities including General Administration Department and Parliamentary Affairs Department.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 ADVOCATE RAISED THE ISSUE ON MAY 1 AFTER WHICH VIDHAN SABHA SECTT ISSUED NOTIFICATION ON MAY 4, 2022 \u00a0 CHANDIGARH, 6 MAY, (Press Ki Taquat Bureau)\u00a0 –\u00a0 Days after an Advocate at Punjab & Haryana High Court, Hemant Kumar, raised the issue regarding non-issuance\/non-publication of Notification in Punjab Government Gazette regarding Election of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9919,1],"tags":[15454],"class_list":["post-39516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-politics","category-punjab","tag-kultar-singh-sandhwan-16th-punjab-legislative-assembly-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39547,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516\/revisions\/39547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}