Meira Kumar to inaugurate MLAs orientation programme in Bhopal

Bhopal, July 4 (ANI): A two day orientation programme of the legislatures of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar in Bhopal today.

Besides Meira Kumar, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Ishwar Das Rohani, the state's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya and the Leader of Opposition, Jamuna Devi will also guide the newly elected MLAs.

The BJP's Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj will deliver a lecture on how to become an effective MLA while former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh will speak on the role of young MLAs in the empowerment of the parliamentary culture in the programme.

Besides them, former Union Minister Vikram Verma and former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Subhash Kashyap, Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari, MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi, MP Sandeep Dikshit, former MP Thavarchand Gehlot and former Lok Sabha general secretary G C Malhotra, and some other experts in parliamentary and legislative procedures will also guide the new members on legislative issues.

Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Karia Munda will chair the closing ceremony. (ANI)