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Press Trust of India Ranchi
Last Updated : Mar 08 2016 | 8:28 PM IST
Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon today pulled up the Opposition for bringing in adjournment motion on the same issue twice, saying it lowered the dignity of the House.
"Already a Committee has been announced by the chief minister, and you can keep it there," Oraon told the JMM after its MLA Kunal Sarangi brought an adjournment motion on the 6th Jharkhand Public Service Commission, citing discrepancy and other opposition MLAs stood in his support.
The committee was set up after the Opposition had stalled the House for three and a half days during the ongoing budget session demanding cancellation of the results of the 5th JPSC examination and a CBI probe into it.
"It's an affront to the dignity of the House," Oraon said while reminding the opposition about the setting up of a Committee headed by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saryu Roy.
Supporting his party MLA, however, the leader of Opposition and former chief minister, Hemant Soren, said the Committee was set up for the 5th JPSC examination while there was discrepancy in the 6th JPSC as well with the examination scheduled on July 17.
The Parliamentary Affairs Minister clarified that the Committee would cover issues relating to the 5th, the 6th and all future examinations.

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The minister also informed the House that a meeting could not take place as Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) Legislature Party leader Pradip Yadav and Congress Legislature Party leader Alamgir Alam cited pre-occupation and that a date would be fixed soon.
Yadav and Alam are members of the committee, which was announced by Chief Minister Raghubar Das on March 2 to look into issues relating to JPSC and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission.
The other members of the committee are senior JMM MLA and former deputy chief minister Stephen Marandi and AJSU party MLA Raj Kishore Mahto.
The House proceedings were disrupted for half-an-hour in the morning session on the adjournment motion and anothr on the sale of land in Santhal Parganas. Both the motions were disapproved by the Chair.

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First Published: Mar 08 2016 | 8:28 PM IST

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