The Delhi Assembly's Winter Session will commence on Friday with stepped up security arrangements, including thorough frisking and checking of pass holders for the visitors gallery, in view of the security breach witnessed at the Parliament a day before. Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that checking of visitors will be stricter than earlier.

 Goel said that a meeting of the security guards at the Vidhan Sabha is held routinely by the officials before every session.

 "Glass panels were installed last year to screen off visitors gallery from the Assembly hall where members sit during the session so that nothing can be thrown down," said Goel.

 "The visitors during the Assembly session have to take passes and they are issued to only those who come on MLA recommendations. The passes are not issued without the (assembly) speaker's signatures," he added.

 The assembly speaker further said the security guards see their passes and they are thoroughly checked, adding the checking will be more stringent this time.

 A senior police officer said that adequate security arrangements will be made in and outside the Delhi Vidhan Sabha during the session.

 "The security will be tightened in and outside the Vidhan Sabha on Friday in view of the session. The local police will be deployed outside the premises, while the security unit will look after the security inside the Delhi Assembly," the officer said. The session is likely to witness heated debates on alleged witch-hunt of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) dispensation by the Centre and a growing tussle between the bureaucracy and the government, sources said.