Centre issues ordinance on Uttarakhand budget
New Delhi/Nainital: Apr 2, 2016, DHNS
The Centre on Friday announced that it has issued an ordinance authorising expenditure for the first quarter of the new fiscal in Uttarakhand, where President’s Rule was imposed recently.
President Pranab Mukherjee signed the Uttarakhand Appropriation (Vote on Account) Ordinance on Thursday night. The Congress on Friday moved the Uttarakhand High Court seeking a stay on the ordinance, contending that it was “unconstitutional” and amounted to “legislative dishonesty”.
“This ordinance is nothing but (Narendra) Modi government’s sinister conspiracy to obstruct and annual implementation of public welfare schemes & programmes, funds for which were allotted in the budget,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here.
In Nainital, former law minister Kapil Sibal moved a petition in the high court on behalf of former chief minister Harish Rawat and former minister Indira Hridayesh, seeking a stay on the ordinance.
“Nobody challenged budget bill of Uttarakhand in court. So, we ask for stay of that budget ordinance,” Sibal told the bench of Chief Justice K M Joseph and Justice V K Bist.
The court has asked the Centre to respond by Tuesday and has agreed to hear the matter the next day. According to the notification issued on Friday, the ordinance allows withdrawal of about Rs 13,642.43 crore to meet expenditure on certain services for the ongoing fiscal in the state, which was put under the President's rule on Sunday.
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari wondered whether a state can have two budgets.
“Can there be two budgets? One passed by the Assembly and other promulgated through an ordinance by the Centre. How can Centre be the arbiter of proceedings in Assembly? The move is unconstitutional,” said Tewari.
DHNS & Agencies
President Pranab Mukherjee signed the Uttarakhand Appropriation (Vote on Account) Ordinance on Thursday night. The Congress on Friday moved the Uttarakhand High Court seeking a stay on the ordinance, contending that it was “unconstitutional” and amounted to “legislative dishonesty”.
“This ordinance is nothing but (Narendra) Modi government’s sinister conspiracy to obstruct and annual implementation of public welfare schemes & programmes, funds for which were allotted in the budget,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here.
In Nainital, former law minister Kapil Sibal moved a petition in the high court on behalf of former chief minister Harish Rawat and former minister Indira Hridayesh, seeking a stay on the ordinance.
“Nobody challenged budget bill of Uttarakhand in court. So, we ask for stay of that budget ordinance,” Sibal told the bench of Chief Justice K M Joseph and Justice V K Bist.
The court has asked the Centre to respond by Tuesday and has agreed to hear the matter the next day. According to the notification issued on Friday, the ordinance allows withdrawal of about Rs 13,642.43 crore to meet expenditure on certain services for the ongoing fiscal in the state, which was put under the President's rule on Sunday.
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari wondered whether a state can have two budgets.
“Can there be two budgets? One passed by the Assembly and other promulgated through an ordinance by the Centre. How can Centre be the arbiter of proceedings in Assembly? The move is unconstitutional,” said Tewari.
DHNS & Agencies
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