LUCKNOW: Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Speaker Girish Gautam met his UP counterpart Hriday Narayan Dikshit at the latter’s office in Vidhan Bhawan on Thursday.
According to the office of UP assembly speaker, Gautam invited Dikshit to attend a meeting convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in Bhopal to discuss smooth operation of state assemblies.
The two assembly speakers discussed proceedings of Vidhan Sabha during the pandemic time and other issues related to parliamentary affairs. Dikshit informed Gautam how the UP assembly decided to give additional weightage to issues of public interest by raising the number of notices issued by the assembly members under Rule 51 and 301.
Dixit also gifted Gautam some of the books penned by him. They included `Hind Swaraj ka Punargathan’, `Bharat Bodh’, `Sochne ki Bhartiya Drishti’, besides the May-June edition of `Sansadiya Deepika’ magazine.
Principal secretaries of MP and UP Avdhesh Pratap Singh and Pradeep Dubey respectively were also present on the occasion.
