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`Speaker has no supreme power'

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM June 21. The House alone enjoys paramount powers and not the Speaker, the former Speaker, M.Vijayakumar, has said.

Inaugurating a seminar on `The rights of the media' organised by the Kerala Gazetted Officers' Association here today, Mr. Vijayakumar said that the Chief Minister alone had a dominant role in the Assembly. The Speaker does not enjoy supreme powers, he said. The Speaker's decision to impose restrictions on the public right to information which was granted unanimously by Parliament and Assembly was unbecoming of a democratic system, he said.

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