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Chairman, Deputy Chairman of Legislative Council elected 4/12/2015 11:26:49 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 12: Haji Inayat Ali of PDP and Jahangir Hussain Mir of Congress were today unanimously elected as Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council respectively. The motion for election of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman was moved by Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar, who is also the leader of the House. The motion was seconded by MLC Ramesh Arora. Felicitating the newly elected Chairman and Deputy Chairman, deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh said that coalition Government created history by electing deputy chairman of Upper House from Opposition party that was never witnessed earlier. "Similarly", he said, "the deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly was also elected from the Opposition". "We decided to give the position of the main Opposition to the National Conference in the Lower House and to the Congress in the Upper House of the state assembly, because the coalition between the BJP and the PDP is not to rule the state, but to work for larger goal of bringing the State out of the morass," he said. He said that it would strengthen democracy and democratic institutions in the State by involving all the stakeholders. The deputy Chief Minister said the endeavour of the BJP-PDP coalition government is to ensure due representation to every region and community to build new bonds of inter-regional and inter-community amity. He said aspirations of every section of the society would be addressed to ensure participatory governance.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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