Lucknow. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has called upon the members of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh to act with dignity, commitment to public interest and collective accountability. Describing parliamentary democracy as the best system of governance, he called the parliament and legislatures a platform for the aspirations of the people, while also motivating the legislators to participate in more discussions and dialogues. Lok Sabha Speaker Birla, along with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was addressing the members in the Legislative Assembly on Friday on the occasion of the inauguration program of the members of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and the formal launch of the new technology ‘e-Vidhan’ implemented to make the assembly paperless. Describing Uttar Pradesh as the center of spiritual, political and cultural consciousness of the country, Birla also underlined the glorious history of the Legislative Assembly.
He said that the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh will probably be the largest assembly of the country, this state is the state where MPs are the Prime Minister of the country. Uttar Pradesh has also played a special role in national politics. He said that after independence our leaders adopted the parliamentary system. It is based on debate and discussion. He said that it is necessary to maintain the sanctity of the assembly. We should always try to speak through facts keeping the issues of the people in front. He also inspired to make the Legislature a meaningful center of discussion and dialogue with the goal of Antyodaya. Om Birla also thanked Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana for implementing the ‘e-Vidhan’ system in just one-and-a-half months.
‘e-Vidhan’ is in line with the spirit of One Nation One Application: CM Yogi
In the program, CM Yogi said that we have come to the House to contemplate for the benefit of 25 crore people of Uttar Pradesh. As per the intention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the work of connecting governance with technology is being done. The ‘e-Vidhan’ system has been implemented in the Vidhan Sabha with the spirit of ‘One Nation One Application’, enhancing the digital mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. CM Yogi said that we had presented the paperless budget 02 years ago. After e-cabinet and e-budget, now the entire assembly is going paperless. In the session starting from May 23, hard copies of documents will be available as per the requirement, but from the coming sessions everything will be completely paperless. Introducing the new system, he told the MLAs that now you will not need to bring very heavy bags in the House.
Earlier, when MLAs used to come to the house, they used to take their assistant along with them. Many times he used to argue with the security personnel that his assistant should go with him to the House with the bag. Now after e-Vidhan your work will be easy. Leader of Opposition Akhilesh Yadav also expressed his views in the program. On this, the Chief Minister also thanked the Leader of the Opposition. Also said that we will work together for the interest of the people. He said that the questions raised by the opposition are critical, but they are also directly for the benefit of 25 crore people.
Akhilesh was stunned to see the changes in the assembly
The Leader of Opposition in the program, Akhilesh Yadav, was surprised to see the changed appearance of the House. He said that seeing the assembly, he felt as if it was an IT centre. For this he congratulated the Speaker and the state government.
I would like to thank and congratulate UP Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana ji for making this Assembly e-Vidhan Sabha. I am happy that the state government is laying emphasis on the use of IT as this will help bring transparency: LoP & Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav pic.twitter.com/kbR2QoM03Y
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