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The Punjab government Friday sent a bill removing Ruler Banwarilal Purohit As an advisor to the Punjab Universities in Raj Bhavan State for the approval of the Governor.
Vidhan Sabha has passed on Punjab University Laws (Amendment) Bill 2023 On 20 June in private session, the Governor questioned its later legal sanctity.
The draft law proposed assigning the powers of the heads of public universities to the prime minister. The move came amid an ongoing struggle between Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Governor Panwarilal Purohit over several issues, including the selection of vice-chancellors of various universities by the government.
An official said that the state will now watch with interest whether Raj Bhavan gives his approval to the current bill or not.
The Department of Education has sent two bills to the governor today. Let’s see what happens,” a government official told the Indian Express on Friday.
Besides the Counselors Act, the Ministry of Education has also sent the Punjab Affiliated Colleges (Service Security) Amendment Bill, 2023 to streamline the work of the Education Tribunal.
However, sources in Raj Bhavan, who were contacted, said that the governor has not received any of the bills yet. “We have not received the two pending bills yet. The government may have sent them and the sender will get these late in the evening. But the governor will not be in Chandigarh for a week. He is going to his hometown. He will look into these bills when Back.
The governor had previously indicated in a press conference that he would obtain a legal opinion on the sanctity of the special session of the Vidhan Sabha which was supposed to be an extension of the budget cycle, as the government had not obtained a previous preferred session.
A government official said, “We will see what he will do. If he returns the bill, the Vidhan Sabha can pass it again and send it to him. In that case, he will have to give his consent. But if he decides to join the bill, nothing can the legislation do. Then there is the way The only way forward is to knock on the doors of the judiciary. But what remains is whether he has given his assent to the session. If he says it has no legal sanctity, none of the four bills, passed by the session, will pass.”
Besides these two bills, the Vidhan Sabha also passed the Punjab Police (Amendment) Bill 2023, and the Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment) Bill 2023. An independent mechanism was to be set up to select and appoint the right persons to the post. of the Director General of Police, while the Gurdwaras.
The bill was aimed at liberalizing the undue control of a particular family over gurbani television broadcasting rights.
The government had sent these two projects to the Governor earlier for approval. The ruler, in turn, sent them to obtain a legal opinion.
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