Hyderabad: The winter session of the assembly, commencing on Monday, assumes significance as it coincides with the completion of the Congress govt’s one year in office. The opposition BRS and BJP are eager to corner the govt on issues like HYDRAA, the Musi project, the Telangana Thalli statue, the caste census, and unkept guarantees and promises.
The state govt is also likely to take some key decisions and table crucial bills on HYDRAA, the Right of Records (RoR), and the Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill. This includes removing the two-child norm, which bars candidates from contesting elections if they have more than two children, along with other crucial clauses.
In all, the assembly sessions are likely to witness heated exchanges between the treasury benches and the opposition, especially over land acquisition from farmers, keeping in view the possibility of panchayat elections being held in February. Chief minister A Revanth Reddy has repeatedly appealed to the leader of the opposition, K Chandrasekhar Rao, to come to the assembly and share his experience for the development of Telangana.
The business advisory committee (BAC) meeting on Monday would decide the number of days the winter session of the assembly would work. This session is also crucial because the ruling Congress is likely to go for panchayat elections before the budget session next year.
The Congress govt is likely to showcase its achievements to the people in the assembly, while the opposition BRS and BJP will try to expose the govt’s failures. KCR held a meeting with party MLAs and MLCs on Sunday and gave them a road map and strategy to be adopted in the assembly to corner the Congress govt.
Likewise, BJP has instructed its MLAs and the lone MLC to not only expose the Congress govt’s failures but also highlight the central govt’s support extended to the govt through various schemes and financial assistance, approving major projects.
On its part, BRS has accused the Congress of betraying farmers by not giving them Rythu Bharosa in the one-year of its governance. It did not deliver its promise of giving 2,500 per month financial assistance to women, and not all the farmers have been covered under the crop loan waiver scheme.
