New Delhi: The AAP dispensation is not tabling any new bill during the Budget Session of the Delhi Assembly as the central government is already sitting on 14 bills, including the one on Lokpal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.
The Budget Session of Delhi Assembly began on Tuesday and Sisodia said he was "saddened" over the delay on part of the Centre.
He said if the Centre does not give nod to the city government's bills at the earliest, there is "no benefit" of tabling new bills and sending them to it for approval.
"We pass bills from here (Delhi Assembly). We work hard to prepare them, but the Centre sits on these bills passed by the Assembly," he said.
Sisodia will present the Budget on March 28. The session will conclude on March 31.
"We have sent several bills to the Centre which are very important for Delhi, including fomation of a new university, amendments in the Labour Laws, journalist salary bill. If we continue to send bills from here to the Centre, there is no benifit."
"Lokpal Bill, which is a very important, is also pending with the Centre. We are today fighting for ACB (Anti-Corruption Branch) and if Lokpal would been appointed today, corruption would been rooted out from the top to bottom," Sisodia said.
He said people of Delhi have been waiting for the Centre's approval for 14 bills which should have become laws by now.
"We would have been able to increase seats in NSIT (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology) after making the institute a university, but the bill pertaining to this is still pending with the Centre," the deputy chief minister said.
Earlier this month, Sisodia and Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh over 14 bills of the city government pending with the Centre for approval for the past several months.
The bills include Delhi Jan Lokpal, MLA Salary Amendment, CrPC Amendment and Delhi School Education (Amendment).
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