New Delhi, February 22 . All the 70 newly elected MLAs who won the recently concluded Delhi Assembly elections will take oath as members in the first session of the Delhi Assembly starting from February 24. This session will start from February 24 and will continue till February 27. The Speaker-Deputy Speaker will also be elected in the three-day session.
The first session of the new Assembly will begin on February 24 (Monday) at 11 am. During this, Protem Speaker Arvinder Singh Lovely will administer the oath to the newly elected MLAs. Lovely has been appointed as the Protem Speaker on the instructions of Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. Until the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly are elected, he will take over the responsibility as the Protem Speaker.
The Speaker of the Assembly will be elected on February 24 at 2 pm.
On February 25, in this session of the Assembly, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena will address the gathering. After this, the CAG report will be placed on the table of the Assembly. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta will present a motion of thanks on the LG’s address.
On February 27, the motion of thanks on the Lieutenant Governor’s address will be discussed in the House. After this, the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly will be elected.
Let us tell you that those members who are unable to take oath on February 24, will be able to take oath later in any meeting of the Legislative Assembly by informing the Secretary till 11 am.
Apart from this, the meetings of the Assembly will run as per the fixed date, unless the Speaker of the Assembly gives any other instructions.
It is known that in the first session of the eighth assembly on February 25, the BJP government of Delhi will fulfill its promise by presenting the CAG report, which the BJP had made during the Delhi Assembly elections. During the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, the BJP, which was in the opposition, had demanded that the CAG report be presented. But, the report was not presented.
On the other hand, the CAG report was discussed in the first cabinet meeting led by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. During this, a plan was made to present 14 CAG reports on the floor of the Assembly. During this time, the BJP government of Delhi also approved the Ayushman Bharat scheme in Delhi.