The five-day Monsoon Session of Jharkhand Assembly, commencing on September 3, will witness several bills being placed in the House. The House is also going to witness stormy scenes, as BJP is planning to corner the State Government on several issues, while the ruling parties JMM and Congress is working on strategy putting a strong defence of Opposition attack.
Both the Opposition parties and ruling coalition on Thursday held the legislative party meetings, which were attended by legislators.
The BJP legislative party meeting was held at a city based hotel, which was chaired by BJP state president Deepak Prakash. The Congress legislative, party meeting too was held at a city based hotel which was chaired by state Congress in-charge RPN Singh.
Sources said that BJP will protest against the state recruitment policy which abolished Hindi, English and Sanskrit from the list of optional subjects in the State Staff Selection Commission.
Sources said that the medical protection bill which will provide tools to medical professionals protecting them from any attack.
The session which will commence on September 3 will run till September 9, will have five working days. On September 6, State Finance minister Rameshwar Oraon will table the first supplementary budget. On the next day, there will be discussion on the Supplementary budget.
Earlier, on the first day of session, the approved ordinance of Governor Ramesh Bais will be tabled in the House. September 4 and 5 being Saturday and Sunday will be public holidays. On September 8 there will be question hour, state bills and other Government work will be tabled in the House. On September 9, too there will be question hour, discussion on bills and ordinance which will be tabled in the House.
This session will be the third Assembly session which will be held under Covid pandemic.
The last monsoon session was held under pandemic from September 18 to 22 last year. This year's budget session was held from February 26 to March 23. The Assembly secretariat had made elaborate arrangements for the monsoon session. The assembly secretariat has made it mandatory for entry of only those who have received both doses of vaccine.
At the same time there will be arrangements for vaccination. The Speaker Ravindra Nath Mahto, in this connection on Tuesday held a meeting directing officials to follow Covid guidelines strictly.