With around 73 per cent new MLAs entering the Punjab Assembly for the first time, the Assembly has planned a special training exercise for them to make them aware of the nuances of the functioning of the House.
85 new candidates won the recently held assembly elections, most of them from the ruling party Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), After two brief meetings of the 16th Vidhan Sabha session held recently, a need has been felt to train the first time MLAs.
Official sources said that the Punjab Assembly has now tied up with the Lok Sabha Secretariat Parliamentary Research and Training Institute (PRIDE) to provide training.
The exercise will be held with a team of experts from Pride for two days, tentatively between May 31 and June 1. For the first time, a one-day training will also be organized by former MLAs and MPs.
Of the 85 budding MLAs, 82 are from the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, while one each from the Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan has asked all the MLAs who became MLAs for the first time to attend the meeting. Officials said that the new MLAs will be taught about raising issues, raising questions and seeking answers in the House, maintaining the dignity of the House, addressing the members with the permission of the Speaker, participating in the debates of the House, as well as the rules. Assembly K.
Although the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mannu And barring Finance Minister Harpal Cheema and Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hare, eight of his cabinet colleagues (who have become MLAs for the first time) will also be asked to come for training, sources say, adding that it will not be mandatory for them.
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