A three-day conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association will be held in Visakhapatnam from February 4 with the focus on ‘Parliament and media laws’.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan would be the chief guest at the meet to be attended by delegates from 10-11 Commonwealth countries, Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao told reporters here on Monday.
He said other subjects to be taken up during the three-day event were being finalised. MPs, legislators and officials from Parliament, State Assembles and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association would participate.
Dr. Siva Prasada Rao said under “palle ku podam’’ programme he along with other people hailing from his native village Kandlakunta in Guntur would spend a day in the village on Sankrathi. Irrespective of caste, religion, all would meet and discuss success and failure stories. “It will be like a family get-together”, he added.
He said they had met in a similar fashion last year and subsequently a reverse osmosis plant was set up and kalyana mandapam was renovated. Everything would be on voluntary basis and there would be any pressure or obligation on anybody.
He said that a record number of 20,000 permanent toilets were constructed in his Sattenapalli Constituency.
Replying to a question, the Speaker said that department-wise Assembly committees were already constituted.
