A brief winter session of the state legislature begins Thursday which is likely to be stormy with opposition ready to grill the government on Muzaffarnagar riots, sugarcane price issue and prevailing law and order situation.
"We are ready to answer all legitimate questions of opposition parties. We want healthy discussion. Therefore, winter session of the state legislature has been summoned," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Azam Khan told reporters here on Wednesday. What necessitated Government to call this session was to seek second supplementary budget for lucknow Metro project, lucknow- Agra expressway and giving financial compensation to the victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots.
The first day of the assembly session would be adjourned after paying condolence on the death of sitting Samajwadi Party member and former minister Raja Ram Pandey. The next day Government will table three ordinances. CM will present supplementary budget on December 9 and it would be passed the next day.
Assembly speaker Mata Prasad Pandey has called all-party meeting on Thursday just before the start of the session. The Business Advisory Committee meeting will be held after that. leader of opposition Swami Prasad Maurya said here that the Samajwadi Party government has failed on all fronts. "We will raise issues that affect the lives of the common man. We will make Government to answer why it failed to control riots," he said.
BJP legislature party leader Hukum Singh said his party will question the appeasement policy of the ruling party. ''Our two legislators will question as why they were arrested under NSA'' he said. Claiming that the state government has violated parliamentary procedure, BJP's leader in legislative Council Hridyanarain Dixit said the Government should give a notice of 14 days before convening the Assembly but it issued notification just four days prior to the first sitting. Congress and RlD leaders also said they will raise pro-people issues in the House.