The Assam Assembly on Saturday passed a resolution to constitute a Legislative Council or Upper House in order to ensure the representation and participation of all the groups in governance.
In a resolution passed on Saturday night in the state Assembly, the state has proposed to the Centre for moving Parliament to formulate laws in this regard.
Moving the resolution, state parliamentary affairs minister Bharat Chandra Narah said Parliament will soon be approached for the passage of a bill required to set up the Legislative Council.
All the legislators cutting across party lines supported the legislation which was unanimously passed.
The proposed Legislative Council will consist of 42 members comprising representatives from various small ethnic groups and communities whose members have never got represented in the Assembly.
One-third of the 42 members will be nominated by the governor and the remaining 28 elected by the 126 members of the state Assembly. Six states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir — have an Upper House which is called Legislative Council or Vidhan Parishad.