Kolkata: For the first time in the Left
Front rule, ministers have been asked to sit with MLAs,
discuss people's problems and take speedy decisions besides
attending the assembly to reply to questions relating to their
departments.
The decision has been taken during a meeting Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had with his council of
ministers and Left Front legislators in the Assembly on the
second day of the budget session.
"The ministers will sit with the MLAs and leaders of
respective districts to discuss various problems of the people
like electricity, drinking water, ration cards and take speedy
decisions," Left Front Chief Whip Syed Md Masih told reporters
after the meeting.
The Chief Minister also asked the ministers to be present
in the house to reply to questions relating to their
departments, he said.
The decision came ahead of the election to 82
municipalities across the state and Kolkata Municipal
Corporation polls scheduled in May-June. The state Assembly
poll is slated for next year.
Bhattacharjee told the Left Front MLAs that opposition
Trinamool Congress would try to create trouble in the Assembly
and asked them to raise various problems of the people as
responsible people's representatives, Masih said.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 19:19