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TN gets presidential nod for legislative council
CHENNAI: President Pratibha Patil
has given her assent to a bill passed by
Parliament for establishing the legislative
council in Tamil Nadu, 14 years after it was
abolished. The act was notified in the gazette
after the Presidential assent. The council would
have 78 members, of whom 26 would be elected by
the Tamil Nadu Assembly and 12 would be
nominated by the governor, an official release
said.
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The rest would be elected from
constituencies created for graduates, teachers and local
bodies. With this, the process of establishing a
legislative council, abolished by AIADMK founder M G
Ramachandran in 1986 when he was chief minister, has
been set in motion. The Tamil Nadu government has
appointed a senior official of the assembly A M P
Jamaludeen as Officer on Special Duty for works related
to forming the Council.
