Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta today sought cooperation from leaders of all political parties to ensure smooth conduct of the Assembly's upcoming budget session scheduled to commence here from May 25.
"All the members are duty bound to represent their constituencies in the House by raising important public issues and should not disrupt the Question Hour which is considered as the most important tool for raising issues, besides making the government answerable and accountable to the people," Gupta said while chairing a meeting of leaders of various political parties and Chief Whips here.
The Speaker hoped that the members would utilise the time fixed for the session judiciously in order to highlight their public interest issues in a democratic manner.
"Equal opportunities will be given to each political party to raise issues of public interest," he said appealing the members to highlight developmental issues besides other important issues for detailed discussion during the course of the session.
"They should do so in a decent and dignified manner and in no case resort to un-parliamentary conduct," he said.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Abdul Rehman Veeri assured the meeting that the government will make all out efforts to "satisfy" the opposition members during the session.
He also sought cooperation of the senior legislators to run the session smoothly.
Legislators, Ali Mohammad Sagar, Mian Altaf Ahmad (both NC), Nawang Rigzin Jora and Vikar Rasool Wani (Congress), M Y Tarigami (CPIM), Sat Paul Sharma and Rajesh Gupta (BJP), Mohammad Yousuf Bhat (PDP), and Bashir Ahmed Dar (Peoples Conference) gave their suggestions in making the session result-oriented, an official spokesperson said.
He said they also assured the Speaker of full cooperation to run the House in a cordial manner.
