Uttarakhand Assembly Session: Supplementary budget will be presented today
Today is the second day of the assembly session on Wednesday, 6th September 2023. It is believed that on the second day, along with presenting the supplementary budget, the government can pass it on the same day. There is a public holiday on Janmashtami festival on 7th September. Ministers and MLAs will also participate in Janmashtami programs to be organized in their respective areas.
The state government has declared the assembly session till 8 September. The first day of the session went into condolence on the demise of the late MLAs. On September 6, along with the supplementary budget, ordinances and other bills will be introduced in the House.
In view of Janmashtami festival, it is believed that the session may go on till late night to pass the budget. However, the agenda for running the session on September 8 has been fixed in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee. On the other hand, the opposition is demanding to extend the duration of the session.
Opposition demands extension of session
In the assembly monsoon session, Congress has objected to keeping the duration of the session short. Congress will raise this issue under Rule 310 on Wednesday. Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya said that for the last two years the House has been able to function hardly for 10 to 12 days in a year. Whereas as per rules the House should function for sixty days in a year.
He said that this time also the government has convened the House for only four days, in this also only two days will be available for actual work. Arya said that the MLAs of the parties and the opposition have raised more than six hundred questions for the House. How will these questions be answered in two days? Not only this, the opposition wants to raise issues like removal of encroachment campaign, recruitment scam, unemployment, disaster management etc in the House.
