The monsoon session of the 14th Assembly of Madhya Pradesh would begin on Monday. The 12-day session would culminate on July 29. During the session, ten sittings of the House will take place to transact official and non-official business. The Government will introduce for passage the second supplementary budget amounting to more than Rs 7,000 cr in the session.
This would be the 11th session of the 14th Assembly. Speaker Sitasaran Sharma reviewed the preparations for the session on Sunday besides inspecting the Assembly building and the MlA rest house.
The Assembly Secretariat has received a total of 3,607 questions till now from the date of issuance of notification for the session. While 133 call attention, 8 adjournment motions, 39 private members bills and 47 zero hour notifications have been received.
The first supplementary budget will be tabled in the House besides, decision on important issues like extension of lokayukta PP Naolekar and reservation rules. The 12-day Monsoon Session of the Assembly is likely to be stormy affair with the principal opposition Congress will trying to corner the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over various issues.
The Congress and other Opposition determined to raise the issues related to expenses during the Simhasth Mahaparv Kumbh Mela which concluded in the ancient temple town Ujjain on April 21. The Congress would raise the alleged scam during the religious congregations by the Government machinery.
Besides other issues, the Congress would also raise the issues such as the Government's alleged inability to control flood, plight of farmers, mid-day meal scam and harassment of Dalit officials.
Discussions on alleged wrong doings in the Simhastha fair, the Income Tax searches on manufacturers of ready-to-eat meals supplied to the anganwadis and reservation in promotion in State Government jobs for SCs and STs that are likely to dominate proceedings of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly's monsoon session that will commence from Monday.
Acting leader of Opposition, Bala Bachchan said that massive irregularities have been committed in purchases in the run up to the Simhastha fair that was held in May. He claimed earthen pots that cost Rs 100 have been purchased at Rs 750 a piece which would be raised during the upcoming monsoon session. He said that the issue of reservation in promotion in state government jobs will also be raised by the Congress.
Bachchan said that the Income Tax department has searched the premises of manufacturers of ready to eat meals supplied through a state government owned PSU to anganwadis in the state pointing to a massive scam in which top functionaries of the state government are involved. This issue too will be raised by the Congress besides poor quality work done at dams constructed under the Bundelkhand package that got washed away in the rains.
Further, the failure of the state government to appoint a lokayukta after the retirement of Justice PP Naolekar, corruption in purchase of cycles for school children and corruption in the cooperatives department will also be raised by the Congress.