{"id":17824,"date":"2018-03-27T16:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=17824"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:29:26","slug":"appointment-of-parliamentary-secretaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/appointment-of-parliamentary-secretaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Parliamentary Secretaries:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parliamentary secretaries are\u00a0ruling party membersappointed to\u00a0assist ministers.<\/li>\n<li>They are regarded for all practical purposes as\u00a0deputy ministershaving access to\u00a0all official files\u00a0and\u00a0documents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, state governments have been appointing parliament secretaries from among Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs).<\/li>\n<li>A Parliament Secretary often holds the rank of Minister of State and has the same entitlements and is assigned to a government department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Issues involved: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PILs filed in various High Courts have argued that appointment of parliamentary secretaries goes against the Article 164 (1) of the constitution for states and Article 239AA for Delhi, which limits the number of ministers in the state\/UTs cabinets.<\/li>\n<li>Various High Courts have deemed the appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries unconstitutional and have ruled against such appointments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary Secretaries: Parliamentary secretaries are\u00a0ruling party membersappointed to\u00a0assist ministers. They are regarded for all practical purposes as\u00a0deputy ministershaving access to\u00a0all official files\u00a0and\u00a0documents. Appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries: In India, state governments have been appointing parliament secretaries from among Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs). A Parliament Secretary often holds the rank of Minister of State and has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/appointment-of-parliamentary-secretaries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}