Morning News
20th September 1958
EAST PAKISTAN ASSEMBLY MEETS TODAY
Rules of Procedure Further Amended
CENTRAL ORDINANCE ABOUT
6 MPAS: SITUATION ‘UNPREDICTABLE’
By A Staff Reporter
The Awami coalition Government further “tightened” its grip on the Legislature when through a notification published in a Dacca Gazette extraordinary the rules of business were further “amended” last night, 20 hours.. before the Assembly meets at 3 pm today.
One of the amendments is purported to “Insulate the House against a possible attempt on the part of the Speaker to adjourn the House against the advice of the leader of the House Another amendment provided that a resolution for the removal of the Speaker could be put to vote without debate.
The notification also amended the rules regarding the President’s authorisation of expenditure out of the provincial consolidated fund under the Constitution after the voting on demands has taken place in the Assembly after the presentation of the budget. All such voting shall have no force and effect, the notification said, “and it shall be necessary to have fresh voting on all the final demands for grants and appropriations in any subsequent session of the Assembly in which the final demands for grants and appropriations are laid.”
ORDINANCE FROM KARACHI
Simultaneously, from Karachi an ordinance was promulgated by the Central Government giving retrospective effect from March 25, to the Act which removed disqualification from becoming member of the Provincial Assembly against a public prosecutor and Government pleader. It was further learnt from Karachi that the Act recently passed by the National Assembly had received the Assent of the President and was published in a Gazette of Pakistan extraordinary yesterday (Friday).
Meanwhile, the East Pakistan Awami League general secretary, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman charged the Speaker, Mr. Abdul Hakim, or “doing active politics” and identifying himself against the Awami League Coalition Party, after no-confidence motions were tabled against him by the members of the Party. The Awami Secretary claimed that ‘law and order’ was still prevailing in the country and there was no force which could escapes by resorting to ‘illegal means’ for personal benefits. He also asserted that his party would come out victorious in any test of strength and would be able to eliminate ‘reactionary forces’ in the country.