Mumbai Nov 9: The wider public interest articulated by the members of the Legislative Council through their speeches is a great guiding force and many revolutionary laws have emerged from the deliberations, Maharashtra Deputy Speaker Neelam Gorhe said here on Wednesday.
She was speaking at a seminar organised on the occasion of the centenary year of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. A seminar and banquet for the present and former members of the Legislative Council was organised at Central Auditorium, Vidhan Bhawan, Mumbai.
Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar, Higher and Technical Education and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandrakant Dada Patil, Skill Employment Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Assembly Opposition Leader Vijay Vaddewatir were among those who graced the programme.
Gorhe said it is because of the members of the Legislative Council that the House has made a great contribution in making laws that raise the standard of living of the society. In this context, Gorhe mentioned the Employment Guarantee Act, Female Feticide Act, Project Victims Rehabilitation Act, Dance Bar Ban Act and the Right to Information.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said the experience of working in the Legislative Council taught a lot to an activist like him. Athawale said he got the opportunity to work as a member and minister through the Vidhan Parishad and talked about his political journey and legislative work experience
