The brief three day session of our Legislative Assembly starting on the 28th of this month sets out to merely comply with the constitutional obligation. It is an overbearing blow to democracy and a sheer charade of the legislature on display. A well planned move to throttle voices of the Opposition.
All this is very high handed, despicable and a devious way of taking shelter of the current epidemic by a government that does not want to be accountable for its acts of omission and commission.
It is an irony that this government which has been holding elections of local bodies and all other functions including the mega public hearing on the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), has chosen to curtail the session in the vital Temple of Democracy preventing debate and discussions on many crucial issues confronting the very well being of our State.
During this pandemic the government has swiftly taken so many decisions having adverse effect on the state. Land conversions, hill cutting and land filling of low lying fields is going on galore with the politically well connected land mafia having a field’s day under the guise of COVID-19.
There is no greater time than the present for elected representatives to be spending every God given hour to debate and action a myriad of changes for the benefit of the people. With the economy deteriorating, it is imperative that there should have been a proper and extensive session of the Legislative Assembly, as the fundamental job of our very handsomely paid MLAs is to debate and enact good legislations while finding efficacious solutions to the problems faced by the people.
