Jammu, Jan 29: The spokesperson of the Assembly Secretariat on Sunday clarified that the constitution of the joint House committee of the legislature was in the backdrop of the demand of all Legislature political parties of NC, INC, PDP, BJP, JKNPP, PDF and some independent members.
 In a statement, he said that the members of these political parties  who called on the Chief Minister and presented a charter of demands with a proposal of constituting the said Committee comprising of representatives from all the political parties to define the powers of the Legislators.
 He said that the statement given by the MLC Murtaza Khan to the media with regard to making amendments to affect the powers of panchayats or otherwise is not based on facts. So far, the question of nomination of Chairman either to Members, Muzafaar Hussain Baigh or any other Member was concerned is exclusively the prerogative of the Speaker and there was no proposal before him for nominating any particular member as its Chairman.
 The spokesperson has said that the meeting held on 27th of January, 2012 of the said Committee was attended by representatives of all the Legislature political parties.

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