Across aisles, UP MLAs reach out to each other – as doctors, engineers, MBAs, women | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Speaker groups MLAs according to their professional degrees, gender and legislative stints; at meeting of women MLAs, a grouse: male colleagues set the agenda
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Across aisles, UP MLAs reach out to each other – as doctors, engineers, MBAs, women
Speaker groups MLAs according to their professional degrees, gender and legislative stints; at meeting of women MLAs, a grouse: male colleagues set the agenda
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Lucknow | Updated: September 6, 2022 8:26:37 pm
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Leader of opposition Akhilesh Yadav with Speaker Uttar Pradesh Assembly, UP MLAs, Express Premium, BJP, Samajwadi Party, indian express, UP assembly speaker Satish Mahana at the state assembly in Lucknow. (Express photo)There’s little in common between Alam Badi, 86, and Harsh Vardhan Bajpai, 42. Members of rival parties in the UP Assembly – Badi is a veteran Samajwadi Party leader and Bajpai is a second-time MLA – the two have often faced off across the aisle. Recently, however, the two legislators, part of a group of engineer-MLAs in the House, sat down to discuss how they could use their professional degrees to help their constituencies.
While Alam has a diploma in engineering that goes back almost five decades, Bajpai graduated with a BTech degree in 2007 from UK’s Sheffield University.
In a first for the polarised and partisan world of Uttar Pradesh’s politics, an exercise by the Speaker of the Assembly to group legislators according to their professional degrees, gender and legislative stints, is helping them exchange ideas and experiences without the constraint of party whips and ideologies.
So far, Speaker Satish Mahana has held meetings with at least six such groups – of doctors, engineers, management degrees, women, MLAs under 40 years of age, and those who have had five or more legislative terms.
Started about a month and a half ago by the Speaker as an initiative to “develop a better rapport” with the MLAs and for “better functioning” of the 403-member-strong House, it is now a platform for legislators cutting across party lines to bond over shared concerns and come up with solutions.
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