Guwahati, April 9: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday led the Indian Parliamentarians for the inauguration of the mid-year executive committee meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), which is being held for the first time in India, that too in Guwahati.
Representatives from 53 Commonwealth countries and nine regions are participating in the meeting.
CPA is composed of branches formed in Parliaments and legislatures in Commonwealth countries which subscribe to parliamentary democracy. The aims of the CPA are to promote knowledge and understanding about parliamentary democracy, especially good governance, transparency and accountability and respect for the rule of law, and individual rights and freedoms.
CPA is a 100-year old organization. The meeting will be held for two days – on April 9-10.
The meeting will basically focus on how to make the parliamentary democratic system more democratic.
The delegates and representatives will also be exposed to Assam’s culture, with special focus on tea tourism, handloom tourism and wildlife tourism. They will be taken for tour to Borengajuli and Panery Tea Garden, Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary and Sualkuchi village.
After conclusion of the CPA mid-year executive committee meeting, the mid-term executive meeting of the CPA India region would be held from April 11-12, also in Guwahati. In this meeting, several State Speakers and Deputy Speakers, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariat officials, MLAs and MPs of various states will take part.
