3 - Statement of Objects and Reasons. - Constitution (55th Amendment) Act, 1986

Statement of Objects and Reasons. 1. The Government of India have proposed to confer statehood on the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh. It has also been proposed as follows:- (i) Having regard to the sensitive location of Arunachal Pradesh, the Governor of the proposed new State shall have special responsibility with respect to law and order in the State and in the discharge of his functions thereto, the Governor shall, after consulting the Council of Ministers, exercise his individual judgment as to the action to be taken and this special responsibility of the Governor shall cease when the President by order so directs; (ii) the Legislative Assembly of the new State of Arunachal Pradesh shall consist of forty members. But as it is proposed to make the existing thirty-member Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh to be the provisional Legislative Assembly for the new State of Arunachal Pradesh until elections are held on the expiry of the five year term of the existing Assembly, it is proposed to provide that the Legislative Assembly of the new State of Arunachal Pradesh shall consist of not less than thirty members. 2. In order to give effect to the above proposals, it is necessary to make special provisions in the Constitution. This Bill accordingly seeks to amend the Constitution to provide for the aforesaid matters. A separate Bill for the establishment of the new State relatable to article 2 is also being introduced.