UP upgrades UPDC to save Amar's RS seat

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Lucknow, Mar 29: Uttar Pradesh government today (Mar 29, 2006) passed a bill in assembly upgrading UP Development Council into an autonomous body with powers like local authority, thus taking another step to save the disqualification process against Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh.

Although BJP members protested the passing of bill in a hurry and demanded it be referred to the house's select committee, chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav said the only motive to upgrade UPDC was to give more teeth for development.

When passed and approved by the UP Governor, UPDC Act-2006 would be implemented with retrospective effect from October 15, 2003, the day when the Council was registered under the Societies Act.

Yadav maintained the present UPDC members did not take a single penny from the government exchequer and challenged that no state could form ''such a strong development council.'' ''Our motive is to prevent foreign MNCs from ruining the country's industrial sector,'' he said alleging harassment of the UPDC members by the centre.

He claimed if politics was not played to ''derail the development process'' in UP, the investment environment would have been different. ''If the opposition wants, the government will have a long debate on UPDC in the next session.'' However, BJP member Hukum Singh maintained that the only effort of the UPDC Bill 2006 was to save the disqualification of RS member Amar Singh, who happens to be the UPDC chairman.

''Now it is time to change the defination of the post of profit, since almost all political parties have suffered due to its present form,'' Singh added.

Another BJP member Laxmi Kant Vajpayee wanted to know from the government why the bill was enforced with retrospective effect from October 15, 2003.

Leader of the opposition Lalji Tandon wanted it mandatory for UPDC to go for audit by a responsible agency.

UNI

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