Odisha Opts To Get A Vidhan Parishad
- 08-Aug-2018
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The Odisha government is considering moving a resolution for the formation of Vidhan Parishad in the upcoming monsoon session of the state legislative assembly, according to sources in the ruling BJD.
The panel formed by the government in 2015 to study the feasibility and procedure for a Vidhan Sabha has submitted its report last week to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The panel comprises Minister for Commerce and Transport Nrusingha Charana Sahoo, BJD MLAs Pramila Mallick and Manohar Randhari, Congress MLA Bhujabal Majhi and BJP MLA Nitesh Gangadeb. The government has not made details of the report public.
If the Vidhan Parishad is formed, Odisha will have a bicameral legislature like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana.
“The Constitution allows states to have an upper house along the lines of Rajya Sabha”, said a senior officer in the state parliamentary affairs department. “The strength of the Vidhan Parishad may be a third of the strength of the Vidhan Sabha, which has 147 seats”.
