Gehlot Govt for holding Assembly session on 31st
   Date :29-Jul-2020

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JAIPUR :
 
Won’t mention trust vote in agenda 
 
THE Rajasthan Government on Tuesday sent a revised proposal for an Assembly session to Governor Kalraj Mishra, sticking to its demand that the sitting should begin on July 31 and refusing to mention if it would seek a trust vote. Sources said the Cabinet took the stand after discussing the suggestions made by Mishra when he returned a proposal from the State Government to summon a Vidhan Sabha session. Amid nationwide protests by Congress workers over the Governor’s apparent reluctance to call a session, Mishra had on Monday said he had no such intention.
 
But he sought a redrafted proposal, the second time in the past few days, including three points – a 21-day notice for calling a session, live broadcast of the proceedings if there is a trust vote, and social distancing. In addition, the Governor had written that a session can be called at a short notice if the Government says in its new proposal that it planned to seek a vote of confidence. But sources said the Ashok Gehlot Government has not mentioned in its new proposal whether it is seeking a vote of confidence in the Assembly session, which it is still insisting should begin on July 31, the date it gave in its last recommendation.
 
Asked about the agenda of the proposed session, Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said it was for the Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly to decide. On social distancing in the Vidhan Sabha to fight coronavirus, the Minister said it was for the Speaker to make the arrangements. “The BJP stands exposed. They are changing their statements,” he said, in an apparent reference to the Speaker’s last note. The Minister was also dismissive of the 21-day notice requirement. He said “10 days” have already passed since the Government proposed a session and asked why the Governor hadn’t given a date himself.
 
“We want permission to call the Assembly session, which is our right. We don’t want any confrontation with the Governor and we hope that he will give his approval this time,” Khachariyawas told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. “He has no right to be raising queries. Yet, we are giving a reply,” the Minister said. He said there was no rivalry with the Governor. “He is the head of our family.”