Hyderabad, July 07: The monsoon session of the State Assembly beginning tomorrow will be for seven working days (till July 15).
Though the ruling party wanted it restricted to five days, on the Opposition parties insistence that the Assembly meet for at least 10 working days, it settled for seven.
The Business Advisory Committee (BAC) which met in the chambers of Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday, decided that at least seven bills and three ordinances be passed during the seven working days besides taking up issues relating to “illegal” construction of irrigation projects by neighbouring States upstream of the Krishna and Godavari.
According to sources, other issues to be discussed in the Assembly are spiralling prices of essentials and problems of farmers in the form of at least one short discussion after Question Hour. It was also decided that no political party would waste Assembly time. When the meeting began, there was a brief argument between the TDP’s Yerraballi Dayakara Rao and Chief Minster K Rosaiah over Babhali. The latter reacted sharply when Dayakara Rao said it was because of the inaction of the chief minster that it had ballooned into a major issue. Dayakara Rao, however, made it clear that though he had indeed mentioned the chief minister, he meant the State Government in general.
Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu demanded that the the Assembly meet for at least 10 days. However, the Congress shot down Naidu’s proposal that the Assembly after meeting for two days be adjourned till the Telangana byelections were over and then sit again so that more issues could be discussed. Finally, the Congress agreed to seven days.
Other leaders who attended the meeting included J Geetha Reddy (Congress), Chiranjeevi (PRP), Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta), Julakanti Rangareddy (CPM), G Mallesh (CPI) and Akbaruddin Owaisi (MIM).
–Agencies