Veteran Congress MLA and former PCC president Gopal Roy who alone was present in the last part of the uneventful assembly session yesterday raised pertinent issues by pointing out that the copies of six bills including GST reform passed by the assembly by voice vote later had not been distributed among MLAs for a fair idea for discussion. The last part of the assembly session turned out to be a dull affair as the treasury bench practically bulldozed with the bills. Gopal Roy and several other MLAs raised the issue of smart metre for electricity bills , pointing out the exorbitant bills being slapped on the people. But when the minister for power Ratan Lal Nath sought to justify the installation of smart metres singing its virtues in a longish speech, a number of MLAs including Gopal Roy as

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