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  • Bihar assembly Speaker sticks to post as he faces no-confidence motion

    By Express News Service

    PATNA: All eyes are set on Bihar assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha against whom ruling RJD members have moved ‘no trust motion’, likely to be taken up in case he does not resign by August 24 when the RJD-led grand alliance or Mahagathbandhan government goes for a floor test.

    According to the rule, a Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution of the Assembly passed by a majority. While the seven constituents of the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan have a total of 164 members in the Assembly, the BJP has 77 MLAs.

    The outgoing state legislative council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh has also not resigned from his post so far. Meanwhile, RJD and JD (U) have reached a consensus on the names of the Bihar assemblyspeaker and state legislative council chairman.

    While veteran RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary is likely to be assembly speaker, Devesh Chandra Thakur most probably will be the next state legislative council chairman.

    Choudhary as RJD candidate had defeated his BJP rival and former party MP Om Prakash Yadav from Siwan in the last assembly election. A five-time RJD MLA from Siwan, Choudhary had also contested for the post of assembly speaker after the last assembly election but he was defeated by the BJPcandidate Sinha.

    Election for the post of speaker was also surrounded by a controversy when former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi had shared a one-and-a-half-minute-long clip on his official Twitter handle. In the audio-tape, the RJD chief is purportedly trying to persuade a BJP legislator to abstainfrom the vote.

    JD (U) is the single largest party in the Bihar legislative council and Devesh Chandra Thakur is nominated as a candidate for the Bihar legislative council chairman, he is tipped to become the next chairman of the upper house.

    Thakur had won the MLC election as an Independent candidate from Tirhut graduate constituency in 2002. In 2004, he joined JD (U). Later, he again emerged victorious in the MLC election from Tirhut graduate constituency in 2008.

    Same year, Thakur was made state disaster management minister in the Nitish Kumar cabinet. In 2014, he again entered into the upper house as an Independent member while he had won MLC election from Tirhut graduate constituency for one more time in 2020. So, it is his fourth term in the state legislative council.

    PATNA: All eyes are set on Bihar assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha against whom ruling RJD members have moved ‘no trust motion’, likely to be taken up in case he does not resign by August 24 when the RJD-led grand alliance or Mahagathbandhan government goes for a floor test.

    According to the rule, a Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution of the Assembly passed by a majority. While the seven constituents of the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan have a total of 164 members in the Assembly, the BJP has 77 MLAs.

    The outgoing state legislative council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh has also not resigned from his post so far. Meanwhile, RJD and JD (U) have reached a consensus on the names of the Bihar assembly
    speaker and state legislative council chairman.

    While veteran RJD leader Awadh Bihari Choudhary is likely to be assembly speaker, Devesh Chandra Thakur most probably will be the next state legislative council chairman.

    Choudhary as RJD candidate had defeated his BJP rival and former party MP Om Prakash Yadav from Siwan in the last assembly election. A five-time RJD MLA from Siwan, Choudhary had also contested for the post of assembly speaker after the last assembly election but he was defeated by the BJP
    candidate Sinha.

    Election for the post of speaker was also surrounded by a controversy when former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi had shared a one-and-a-half-minute-long clip on his official Twitter handle. In the audio-tape, the RJD chief is purportedly trying to persuade a BJP legislator to abstain
    from the vote.

    JD (U) is the single largest party in the Bihar legislative council and Devesh Chandra Thakur is nominated as a candidate for the Bihar legislative council chairman, he is tipped to become the next chairman of the upper house.

    Thakur had won the MLC election as an Independent candidate from Tirhut graduate constituency in 2002. In 2004, he joined JD (U). Later, he again emerged victorious in the MLC election from Tirhut graduate constituency in 2008.

    Same year, Thakur was made state disaster management minister in the Nitish Kumar cabinet. In 2014, he again entered into the upper house as an Independent member while he had won MLC election from Tirhut graduate constituency for one more time in 2020. So, it is his fourth term in the state legislative council.

  • Non-vaccinated Legislators will not to allowed to attend monsoon session of Bihar assembly: Speaker

    MLAs who have recovered after getting infected and have been specifically advised by their doctors to get vaccinated after a certain amount of time will be granted entry.

  • Bihar Speaker praises aid for children orphaned by Covid, urges legislators to take responsibility

    By Express News Service
    PATNA: The Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha welcoming the decisions of PM Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for children orphaned by the Covid-19, said that decisions are historic in the national interest, which will always be remembered for reference.

    He said that due to Corona, the decision of the Central and Bihar government will not only help in the upbringing of the lives of children orphaned by virus, rather it will help children to be responsible citizens and also helpful in their economic and social developments.

    “This decision of the government shows a new ray of hope in every section of the society and it also strengthens the concept of public welfare,” Sinha said.

    He also made an appeal to the legislators of state to come forward in the society and become the guardians of children orphaned and affected by the Covid pandemic.

    “We all have the primary responsibility for their protection and proper development, especially of such needy children apart from the government’s appropriate decisions taken for them at the right time,” he said.  

    “Therefore, the time has come that all the people’s representatives, including the MLAs, should step forward and play the role of guardian, assuring the orphaned children that the whole society, along with the government, is always standing with them collectively,” he added.  

    He also stressed that it is the moral and social responsibility of everyone to ensure that the benefit of the declarations made by the government in the interest of children, reaches all such affected children. 

    “If we can do this, then this will be a true tribute to the late parents of those children and the next generation will also be stronger,” said Sanjay Kumar Singh, deputy director of presse in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, quoting the speaker.

  • Bihar Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha extends wishes to journalists on Hindi Journalism Day

    Express News Service
    PATNA: Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha on Saturday extending his wishes to all Hindi journalists on the occasion of Hindi Journalism Day.

    He said that the journey of Hindi journalism had started on May 30 in 1826 with the weekly newspaper “Udant Martand”. 

    The “Udant Martand” was a publication started by Pandit Jugal Kishore Shukla, and the journey continued further. 

    “From the independence of the country till today, Hindi journalists have played a tremendous and deciding role in the creation of the nation and in national integration”,the speaker said. 

    The great writers, poets and thinkers of Hindi have taken the hindi journalism to a new height by connecting people to their rights and social and national responsibilities, through their articles.

    “The journalists associated with Hindi journalism have created a mass public awareness and motivation to the all-round development of India since the struggle for independence”,he said, adding fearless, fair, and impartial journalism was the need of democracy. 

    “Hindi is the national language of India and its sphere of influence is very wide, in such a situation, I am grateful to Hindi journalists for its development and giving it strength”, he added. 

    The social and professional challenges for Hindi journalists are also a lot but the people associated with it are successfully doing it in all the best possible ways,the speaker said.

    “Journalists’ writings are like a mirror, which not only shows the truth to the society but also strengthens democracy along with the public”, he said, adding that bringing voices of people in the corridor of power has also got strengthen with the journalism started in Hindi also.

    “Therefore, it is also the responsibility of both the government and society to keep journalists safe and to honor them. Only positive journalism can give a new direction to the society”, the speaker said.

  • Bihar Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha appeals to people to help tackle Covid crisis

    Express News Service
    PATNA: Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha expressed his deep concern over the rising infection of Corona and appealed to the state’s private hospital managements, doctors, nurses, drug agencies, drugstore oxygen service providers, and other service providers to work for tackling the crisis together as service to humanity. 

    “Now is not the time to earn wealth and fame but to serve humanity and human. It is time to save mankind from the worldwide crisis. My appeal to all is to render their services to tackle the pandemic crisis”, Sinha said through a statement released by the deputy director of the press of assembly Sanjay Kumar Singh on Thursday. 

    He further called upon people to create together a mutually positive environment in the society to fight the epidemic with a humanistic zeal taking the legacy of the ancestors forward in which people were helping each other in times of calamity. 

    “ By doing this, not only we will be able to keep our life safe, but we will also be able to give a message of safe life to the coming generations”, the speaker said.