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With the BJP government in the State failing to get the nod of the Legislative Council for amendments to three essential Bills — all of which have been to substitute Ordinances — through the legislature session that concluded in the early hours of Sunday, these Ordinances will have to be promulgated once more.
Even earlier than the legislature session commenced, the Opposition events and labour and farmers teams had criticised the Ordinances as “anti-labour” and “anti-farmer”.
The 75-member Council, the place the mixed Opposition of the Congress and JD(S) is in the bulk, on Saturday defeated the Industrial Disputes and Certain Other Laws (Karnataka Amendment) Bill, 2020, whereas the Council was adjourned sine die later in the midst of the dialogue on the Karnataka Land Reforms (Second) Amendment Bill, 2020, with out passing it. The Karnataka Agriculture Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Bill, 2020, was not taken up for dialogue. All three Bills had earlier been handed by the Legislative Assembly.
“In recent decades, this is the first time such a thing has happened,” a legislature secretariat supply mentioned. On Sunday morning, when BJP MLCs met the Chief Minister, the matter got here up for dialogue.
Government sources mentioned the Ordinances promulgated earlier would stay in pressure for six weeks from the date of the legislature being convened (in this case, September 21). “If the government wants the changes before the legislature is reconvened, it can promulgate another Ordinance after the lapse of the current one,” the supply mentioned.
The Council session, which went previous 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, noticed heated arguments between the treasury and Opposition benches. While the Opposition members insisted that dialogue on topics similar to issues on the Government Medical College in Mandya, the alleged BDA rip-off, and the latest violence at D.J. Halli and Okay.G. Halli had to be taken up below Rule 330, the treasury bench was eager on the passage of the Bills. Finally, because the members grew to become weary with the proceedings transferring previous midnight, the Council was adjourned in the midst of the dialogue on the land reforms Bill, a lot to the chagrin of the ruling social gathering.
Sources in the legislature secretariat mentioned the labour Bill was despatched again to the Assembly after the Council defeated it, however the Assembly couldn’t take it up. “If the Ordinance is promulgated again, fresh replacement Bills have to be placed before the Assembly again and due process has to be followed,” the supply mentioned.
‘Disappointed’
BJP spokesperson and MLC N. Ravikumar mentioned, “We are disappointed with the chain of events in the Council on Saturday night. The chair should have at least given a ruling on the land reforms Bill. The House was adjourned sine die abruptly.” The developments in the Council after the labour reforms Bill was defeated got here as no shock, and the Opposition was anticipated to stall the opposite two Bills, he added. Interestingly, senior BJP member Ayanur Manjunath had additionally opposed the labour Bill, terming it anti-labour.
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