Date:05/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/05/stories/2007120555790100.htm

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Governor urged to convene Council session

Special Correspondent

B.K. Chandrashekar

Bangalore: Chairman of the Legislative Council B.K. Chandrashekar has appealed to Governor Rameshwar Thakur to convene a session of the Legislative Council since the Upper House cannot be dissolved under the provisions of the Constitution. Unlike the Legislative Assembly, the members of the Legislative Council have a six-year .

He told presspersons here on Tuesday that he had met the Governor and told him that there was no constitutional reasoning to prevent the functioning of exclusive committees of the Council. Subject committees could take up some of the important issues for debate and make suggestions, he said, though some activities such as calling attention motion, zero hour and question hour could not be carried out.

He said he had appealed to Home Minister Shivaraj Patil to modify the proclamation of Assembly dissolution on November 20, 2007, to clear the cloud of uncertainty over the status of the Council.