Shimla, August 27: The second monsoon session of the 14th Himachal Pradesh Assembly is going to start from today. This time the monsoon session will run for 10 days. The proceedings of the House will end on September 9. There are full chances of a huge uproar in the monsoon session. The opposition can disrupt the proceedings of the House after the condolence motion on the first day. The opposition party BJP has indicated that the opposition’s attitude will be harsh in the session by staying away from the all-party meeting called by the Assembly Speaker on Monday regarding the monsoon session. In fact, no leader from the opposition attended the all-party meeting chaired by Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania. This clearly indicates that the opposition is going to surround the government during the monsoon session.
The BJP held a meeting late on Monday evening under the chairmanship of Leader of Opposition Jairam Thakur and formulated a strategy regarding the monsoon session. Jairam Thakur says that the government will be surrounded on issues like inflation, mismanagement, corruption, law and order in the monsoon session. After the budget session, in the last five months, the BJP has got many such issues on which it will try to surround the government. These mainly include the devastation caused by cloudburst, floods and landslides, poor financial condition of the state, pending liabilities of employees, amendments in free electricity scheme and free water scheme in villages, increase in cement prices and guarantees of Congress.
On the other hand, the ruling party Congress is also ready to answer every question of the BJP MLAs. Just before the monsoon session begins, the ruling party MLAs will hold a meeting at 9 am. In this, a strategy will be prepared to thwart the attacks of the opposition. The ruling party is accusing the central government of ignoring the state. The ruling party will try to put the opposition on the back foot by cashing on this issue in the House.
Nine newly elected MLAs will take part in the session, husband-wife duo will be seen for the first time
Six newly elected MLAs of Congress and three newly elected MLAs of BJP will also take part in the monsoon session being held after the results of the two recent assembly by-elections. In fact, in February this year, during the budget session, the membership of six Congress MLAs was dismissed by the speaker for violating the whip after cross voting in the Rajya Sabha elections. Six former Congress MLAs who rebelled later joined the BJP and contested the assembly by-election on BJP ticket. Of these, only Inderdutt Lakhanpal and Sudhir Sharma have been able to reach the assembly again. Similarly, three independent MLAs KL Thakur, Ashish Sharma and Hoshyar Singh resigned and contested the election from BJP and only Ashish Sharma was able to win.
This time, for the first time, a husband-wife pair will be seen in the assembly. Kamlesh Thakur, who became MLA by winning her first election from Dehra, is the wife of Chief Minister Sukhu. For the first time, a husband-wife pair will be seen in the House in the form of Chief Minister Sukhu and Kamlesh Thakur. Now there are no independent MLAs in the assembly. The number of Congress MLAs is 40 while BJP has 28 MLAs.
936 questions will be raised in the monsoon session, the speaker appealed for cooperation from the ruling party and the opposition
Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania has appealed for cooperation from the ruling party and the opposition in conducting the monsoon session. He said that this is an important session, in which 10 meetings are being organized. He has urged all the members to make good use of the time of the House to raise issues related to public interest and discuss them. He said that the members can raise issues of state interest and their respective constituencies in the House and the government is also ready to answer them. He said that in this session, a total of 936 notices of questions have been received from the members, out of which 640 questions are starred (online 516, offline 124) and 296 questions are unstarred (online 248 and offline 48).
Kuldeep Singh Pathania said that 7 notices under Rule 62, 1 notice under Rule 63, 10 notices under Rule 101, 20 under Rule 130 and 4 notices under Rule 324 have been received from the members.
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