TIA correspondent
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will visit Nairobi to attend the 56th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA). The conference will be held from September 10 to 19.
The Delegation consists of five parliamentarians from the India Union Branch and twenty eight legislators from the State Branches of CPA. The MPs in the delegation include Ms Sushila Tiriya, and Moinul Hassan from Rajya Sabha and Harin Pathak, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Ms. Ingrid Mcleod from Lok Sabha . Secretaries-General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha P.D.T. Achary and Dr. V.K. Agnihotri, respectively, are accompanying the Delegation. Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, Joint Secretary, will serve as Secretary to the Delegation.
The theme of the Conference is “Parliament and Development in the 21st Century: Thus Far and Beyond”. The Conference is being held in Kenya at a historical moment when the country adopted a new Constitution, on August 27, 2010
One of the remarkable features of the new Constitution of Kenya is that it includes a comprehensive Bill of Rights.
The Speaker Meira Kumar would be the Lead Speaker in a Workshop on ‘How prepared is the Commonwealth for the Emerging New World Economic Order ?’ The Workshop assumes significance because India has come a long way in economic growth and social progress since 1974, when the UN Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order in May, 1974 which, the then Prime Minister, late Indira Gandhi had supported.