A day ahead of winter session, CM Assam meets party MLAs, briefs them on forthcoming bills

Dec. 19: Assam Governor Prof Jagadish Mukhi has summoned the winter session of the Assam Assembly from December 20, 2021. As per Assembly sources, this will be a 5-day session up to 24 December. The Cabinet has decided to table around 13 bills in the forthcoming winter session. It is in this backdrop that just a day ahead of the winter session, a meeting of all the legislators of allied parties was held at Gopinath Bordoloi Auditorium of Assam Legislative Assembly on 19 December, 2021.

While addressing the BJP and allied parties legislators, Chief Minister, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma spoke about the various bills which will be tabled during the winter session of the Legislative Assembly. He addressed all as regards the upcoming proposed bills- their importance and impact.

Apart from the Chief Minister, the other functionaries on the dias were BJP State President, Bhabesh Kalita, Ajay Jamwal, Phanindranath Sarma, UPPL President, Pramod Boro and President of AGP- Atul Bora.

As per sources, the bills likely to be tabled in the winter session of Assam assembly are :

• The Assam Co-operative societies amendment bill 2021
• The Sonowal Kachari autonomous council amendment bill 2021
• The Deori autonomous council amendment bill 2021
• The Assam tribal development authority (repeal) bill 2021
• The Assam Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribe reservation of post in service amendment bill 2021
• The Guwahati Municipal co operation amendment bill 2021
• The Assam Municipal amendment bill 2021
• The Assam excise amendment bill 2021
• The right of fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition rehabilitation and re-settlement amendment bill 2021.
• The Assam fixation of ceiling on land holdings amendment bill 2021
• The Assam recruitment commission for analogous posts for class 3 and 4 bill 2021.
• The Assam cattle preservation amendment bill 2021
• The Assam police amendment bill 2021.