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"content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Motion. Hon. Speaker, if you can recall, in the morning, I talked about resistance within the bureaucracy, against this Act. It is now clear that the reason as to why this Act has not been operationalised as envisaged by the Act itself is because of people being uncomfortable with it. This discomfort is, of course, genuine but the Government bureaucracy, headed by the Minister, was not forthright to the Committee when they appeared before the Departmental Committee. The reason as to why I supported the extension, which I still do; is so that we get ample time to not only look at this matter afresh but to look at it with a view to repealing the entire Act. As ably put by the Leader of Majority Party, if you look at this Act, you will see a tendency towards centralisation of decision-making and resource allocation, which is contrary to the spirit and the letter of the Constitution. Therefore, my position still remains but let us extend this period to whatever date. In my view, six months is adequate but let us not waste time by indulging the Cabinet Secretary with a view to making him operationalise the Act because if it comes to fruition in the way it is crafted, it will take us more than 30 years back. Therefore, I grudgingly support the extension of the effective date â this is really a waste of time as it should have been done much earlier â so that when the Committee re-convenes next week, we take definite steps to not only re-look at the Act, but to repeal it altogether, so that we can start from a clean slate. With those very few remarks, I beg to support."
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