Monsoon session begins today; oppn likely to take up SIR, law & order issues
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Patna: With the five-day monsoon session of the state legislature scheduled to begin from Monday, law and order, and special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll would be among the issues that the members of the five-party Grand Alliance (GA) of the opposition are likely to corner the ruling NDA on.
Incidentally, the monsoon session of the state assembly is the last of the current House, as the state elections are scheduled for Oct-Nov. Accordingly, it is expected that the opposition members would press for their issues on the floor of the House, rather aggressively.
However, the opening day of the state assembly will begin on a sedate note on Monday, as speaker Nand Kishore Yadav will announce the constitution of the business advisory committee of the House for the session.
Besides, parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary will table the bills to be taken later by the House on July 22 and 23. Further, finance minister Samrat Choudhary will also table the first supplementary budget for the current financial year on the opening day for discussion, and the passage of the related appropriation Bill on July 24.
The opening day will conclude with an obituary reference to the departed lawmakers.
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Accordingly, the opposition members are likely to raise their issues from Tuesday. Nonetheless, they are expected to raise them in the lounge of the assembly building before the House meets, both on Monday, and Tuesday onwards till July 25, the last day of the session.
The opposition members seemed agreed on the issues they would raise together.
"Besides the SIR issue, and law and order, we will present the matters related to mass migration that has become an unending regular feature despite around 20-year rule of the NDA, comprising mainly the BJP-JD(U) combine," Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in the assembly, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, said.
The legislature party leader of the CPI(ML), Mahboob Alam, said that his party's MLAs would also press for the govt's replies on scheme workers, besides the two burning issues.
However, the speaker has appealed to the members not to disrupt the question hour, and cooperate in the smooth running of the House, while parliamentary affairs minister Choudhary has said that the govt will give replies to every question fielded by the opposition.
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