Chandigarh
(I-Haryana News): Haryana Government led by Chief Minister, Mr.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda has decided to completely ignore the role Leader
of Opposition in selecting functionaries for constitutional and statuary
bodies.
After,
row of tussle to select three State Information Commissioners in the
State information Commission, now on Saturday Meeting was scheduled to
select chairman and two members for the state first Human Right
Commission that too after 18 years of long wait.
As
per Human Right Act of 1993, amended in 2006 the committee consisting
Chief Minister of the state, Speaker of State Assembly, Home Minister
and Leader of Opposition is empowered to select chairperson and members
of the state Human Right Commission.
The
Scheduled Meeting for the same was held at Chief Minister, Mr.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s official residence and names of Justice Virender
Kumar Jain, former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court,
Justice H S Bhalla, a former Judge of the Orissa High Court and a
2001-batch IAS officer, JS Ahlawat, who had retired as deputy
commissioner Panipat in April 2012, were proposed by Government on which
all present expect Mr. Chautala, who raised objection agreed.
While
Taking to media after Meeting, the Leader of opposition clarified that
he has written protest note on the way the names of chairperson and
members were proposed unilaterally and without application of mind to
fulfill real objective of Human Right Commission Act passed by Indian
Parliament in 1993, as non of three members whose names were discussed
for proposed commission belongs to women, Schedule Caste and Backward
castes sections of society, all of these sections are prone to
atrocities in present societal framework in Haryana.
It
is to mention that on August 31, 2012 the Search Committee comprising
Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Education Minister, and Mrs.
Geeta Bhaukkal and Leader of Opposition, Mr. Om Prakash Chautala met to
select three SICs for State Information Commission but like Human Right
Commission failed to reach on consensus, resulted into unilaterally
announcement of Names of three SICs.
It
is to remind that the search or selection committees for all
constitutional and statutory bodies are made comprising State political
head (Chief Minister), the minister concerned and Leader of Opposition
to make selection for these independent bodies transparent and without
any controversy, but the ways the these selections are being made
would raise question mark over public acceptability of these
constitutional and statutory bodies in public domain.
Source: Intelligent Haryana News
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