Chandigarh: The opposition AAP today sought
permission from the Punjab Assembly speaker to table a private
member bill in the upcoming budget session, which is aimed to
unseat ministers or MLAs if they are found guilty of conflict
of interest.
The Punjab Unseating of Members of Legislative Assembly
found Guilty of Conflict of Interest Bill, 2018, was submitted
to Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana K P Singh here, AAP
Punjab, co-president Aman Arora, said.
"Under the proposed bill, any elected representative, be
it the chief minister, ministers and the MLA's, shall be
liable for disqualification and hence unseated, within a
period of six months, if they are found guilty of the Conflict
of Interest Act, which means any MLA found furthering his own
private interests, financial or commercial, directly or
indirectly, at the cost of interest of the state, shall be
unseated," he said.
Arora, an MLA from Sunam, said had such law existed,
mafias involved in liquor, transport, cable businesses would
not have come into existence.
Arora said, "This Act will not entail any financial
expenditure and rather it will be instrumental in preventing
the loot of public exchequer by the politicians."
AAP MLA accused the Congress-led government of not taking
any step in this direction despite making promises before the
Assembly polls.
PTI
