The Opposition Congress might boycott the special one-day session of the Madhya Pradesh legislative Assembly on March 24 if the Government does not concede its demand of extending it by a day. leader of the Opposition in Assembly Satyadev Katare said they have almost agreed to boycott the session if it is not extended one more day over the farmers' issue. "We want that a day's proceedings should be dedicated to discuss the plight of farmers who are facing severe crop loss due to recent hailstorm and untimely rains. Our MlAs are going to sit together to discuss a strategy for the sessiontomorrow," Katare said.
"We have almost agreed to boycott it (the session) if our demand is not met. But a final decision will be taken at a meeting," he added. He said farmers' financial condition was grim in the State as hailstorm and unseasonal rainfall during ongoing rabi season has hampered standing crops for the third consecutive year and hence it is needed to be discussed in the House.
It can be noted that the State's budget session was prorogued sine die last month, 29 days ahead of its schedule amid pandemonium over MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam. The session had begun on February 18. The special session of the Assembly is being convened to pass the supplementary budget of the current fiscal.
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Arun Yadav on Sunday questioned that as to why the atrocities on minorities' increased after the BJP came to power and asked the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to give his Government's stand over the attack on a church in Jabalpur. Yadav criticizing the attack on the church in Jabalpur by the right-wing Hindu outfits Dharma Sena, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal said that the saffron brigade is continuously targeting the minority communities in the State while the BJP Government is silent over it.