{"id":15659,"date":"2026-03-28T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:32:57","slug":"mlas-questions-must-not-exceed-150-words-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/mlas-questions-must-not-exceed-150-words-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"MLAs\u2019 questions must not exceed 150 words: Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jammu, Mar 28: <\/strong>MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia raised a Point of Order regarding the length of questions raised during the Question Hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Speaker Legislative Assembly Abdul Rahim Rather emphasized the need for concise questions, stating that the length should not exceed 150 words to save the House&#8217;s precious time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rather, while citing Rule 38 Condition 7, stressed that MLAs&#8217; questions should be brief and within the 150-word limit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker observed that most questions were lengthy and violated the rules, but had been allowed using his special powers to admit most questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He sought cooperation from members to avoid lengthy questions, warning that such questions would be rejected in future to save time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He suggested a workshop or seminar by the experts on rules to make MLAs more aware of the prescribed guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, Mar 28: MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia raised a Point of Order regarding the length of questions raised during the Question Hour. &nbsp; In response, Speaker Legislative Assembly Abdul Rahim Rather emphasized the need for concise questions, stating that the length should not exceed 150 words to save the House&#8217;s precious time. &nbsp; Rather, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15661,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions\/15661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}