C'wealth Par Association-India Region meet in Patna in Feb

Lawmakers from across the country would converge here in February next year to take part in a four-day meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - India Region, Bihar Vidhan Sabha Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary said today.
"The meeting of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - India Region will be held in Patna from February 16 to February 19, 2018. The meeting will be Chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and attended by members of both Houses of Parliament", Choudhary told reporters here.
"In addition to members from Parliament, those who will be taking part in the meeting include Speakers and Chairpersons respectively of legislative assemblies and councils of state. Each assembly and council can send one member in addition to the Speaker or the Chairman", he said.

Choudhary, who recently took part in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference at Dhaka, followed by a post conference study tour of Hong Kong, Japan and the US claimed "upon observing the functioning of lawmaking bodies in various parts of the world, I can say with confidence that the legislature in our country is among the best and the most vibrant across the globe".
"There may be instances of unruly behaviour by members of the legislature from time to time which end up grabbing headlines. But, it would be no exaggeration to say that our legislative system is second to none when it comes to productivity and quality of debates", the Bihar Speaker claimed.