Badal to induct three chief parliamentary secretaries
June 15th, 2011 - 4:45 pm ICT by IANSChandigarh, June 15 (IANS) With barely nine months to go for assembly elections, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Wednesday decided to induct three legislators as chief parliamentary secretaries (CPS).
Legislators Harpreet Singh Sandhu (Tarn Taran), Gurtej Singh Ghuriana (Balluana) and Inderbir Singh Bolaria (Amritsar-South) are likely to be the new chief parliamentary secretaries, a state government spokesman said here Wednesday.
Badal has sent the file to Punjab Governor Shivraj V. Patil to seek his approval.
The Badal government already has 12 CPS and their number will go up to 15 with the new inductions.
The post of a CPS is of a senior government functionary who is just below a minister but above the bureaucrats in protocol.
With the total number of ministers limited under law to 15 percent of the total strength of the state assembly, various chief ministers have been inducting CPS to accommodate legislators who cannot be made ministers.
Elections to 117 seats of the Punjab assembly are scheduled to be held February-March next year.
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