RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.30: Parliamentary affairs minister and four-term MLA from Pakur constituency Alamgir Alam resolved to improve the level of discussion in the assembly in the coming year.
Alam shared his resolution with Lagatar 24.com saying it is necessary to address the issue of common people of the state.
“This year I observed the opposition stretching one issue for a long time and disturbing the house as if they have no other issue to discuss in the house. As an opposition, there is nothing wrong to bring anything not done well by the government to the notice of the house but disturbing the house for one particular issue could foil the entire process of democratic exercise. Thus in the coming year, I resolved to improve the level of discussion in the house to ensure that the problems of common people should be addressed,” Alam said.
Alam justified his resolution by saying in democracy people elect their representatives to raise issues related to them and improve their standard of life and that it is the duty of all ruling and opposition party legislators to participate in fruitful discussion.
Asked about another resolution Alam, who earlier also served as the speaker of assembly between October 20, 2006 to December 12, 2009, said: “My other resolution is to help the government in such a way that youths in the state get proper employment opportunities and then become self-dependent. Apart from this, I also resolve to establish a peaceful atmosphere in the state to ensure that the common people in the state could enjoy a better life.”
Alam, a senior Congress party leader, has been elected to the Jharkhand assembly in 2000, 2004, 2014 and 2019 elections while he lost in the 2009 elections. In the 2019 Jharkhand legislative assembly election, Alam retained his seat, defeating Akil Akhtar, who had previously held the seat following the 2009 elections.
Following the elections in which Congress emerged victorious alongside its coalition partners JMM and RJD, Alam was elected the leader of the Congress Legislature Party.[On December 29, 2019, Alam was among the initial four members sworn into the state Cabinet along with Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Rameshwar Oraon and Satyanand Bhokta.
