Agartala: Tripura’s opposition Congress on Friday alleged the Left Front government was holding a minimum number of assembly sessions to “restrict the democratic rights of the people and elected representatives”.
“Since 2000, the government has been convening the sessions of the Tripura assembly on an average 18 days in a year. We are unable to raise many urgent issues relating to public interest due to lack of time,” Leader of Opposition Ratan Lal Nath said.
“The Commonwealth Parliamentary Forum (CPF) has urged all the states on a number of occasions to hold the assembly sessions for at least 60 days in a year in small states and 100 days in big states,” he said. The CPF is a parliamentary body with speakers and deputy speakers of all states as members and speaker of the Lok Sabha as its chairman. (IANS)