NEW DELHI: LG VK Saxena has urged Chief Minister Atishi to call a special session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly on December 19 and 20 to lay 14 pending CAG reports in the house.
In a letter to the CM, the LG said he would not ordinarily indicate a timeframe for calling a special sitting of the house at such short notice, but the situation was “extraordinary” since the term of the current assembly and the elected govt was set to expire in February 2025.
“I am sure that as Leader of the House, you would step in to maintain the sanctity of legislative accountability,” the LG said in the letter.
Saxena mentioned in his communication that it was the constitutional obligation of an elected govt to lay all such reports before the legislative assembly, as part of the framework of accountability of govt before the legislature envisioned by the framers of the constitution.
“There has been a conscious and deliberate lapse on the part of the elected govt to lay reports over the last two years. I have been consistently writing to you and your predecessor, reminding you of the criticality of this fundamental obligation,” the LG said in his letter.
“It is indeed sad that a few members of the legislative assembly were compelled to approach the High Court for enforcement of their own constitutional rights, so flagrantly violated by the elected govt,” he said.
