Delhi Assembly Speaker Gupta present recommendations at meeting of Legislative Bodies

New Delhi, Oct 27 (UNI) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta, while presenting recommendations at the meeting of the Committee on Formulation of Model Rules for Uniformity in the Procedure and Conduct of Business in Legislative Bodies, today said that uniform rules cannot mean identical rules, and the panel's endeavour should be to strengthen common democratic standards while preserving the constitutional autonomy and institutional distinctiveness of every Legislature. As part of comprehensive parliamentary reforms, he emphasised the need for gender-neutral legislative rules, arguing that masculine expressions retained under conventions derived from the General Clauses Act, 1897, must give way to language…