{"id":138022,"date":"2020-09-26T01:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=138022"},"modified":"2020-09-26T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:43:19","slug":"thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/26\/thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thongdok advocates independence of assembly secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138037 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Thongdok-advocates-independence-of-assembly-secretariat-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a>GUWAHATI, Sep 25:<\/strong> Former Arunachal legislative assembly speaker TN Thongdok on Friday advocated independence of the legislative assembly secretariat with separate power, as per Article 187, &#8220;which is analogous to Article 98 of the constitution of India, in line with the parliamentary secretariat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thongdok was delivering a speech on &#8216;Independence of state legislative assemblies and parliament procedures&#8217; during the centenary celebration of the all India presiding officers&#8217; conference, held at the Assam legislative assembly here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emphasizing the need for &#8220;reforming the function of the government,&#8221; the former speaker advocated &#8220;review of rules of procedures in the parliament and legislative assembly for holding longer and frequent sessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thongdok also suggested that &#8220;there should be unfettered freedom in speech and vote of legislatures, notwithstanding affiliation of a private member to a party, except in extreme contingency of instability, in which case the votes of the members should be constrained as per the 10th schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several former speakers of the Assam legislative assembly and former principal secretaries of Assam also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in a video message informed the house that the centenary celebration will continue till next September to mark 100 years of the institution of presiding officers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, Assam Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami, Deputy Speaker Aminul Haque Laskar and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary attended the function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, Sep 25: Former Arunachal legislative assembly speaker TN Thongdok on Friday advocated independence of the legislative assembly secretariat with separate power, as per Article 187, &#8220;which is analogous to Article 98 of the constitution of India, in line with the parliamentary secretariat.&#8221; Thongdok was delivering a speech on &#8216;Independence of state legislative assemblies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}