The winter session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature commenced on Wednesday with the opposition creating ruckus and demanding removal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni and payment of cane dues.
The Samajwadi Party and Congress staged demonstrations outside the Vidhan Bhawan and took out foot march, demanding resignation of Union minister Teni after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident framed murder charges on his son.
The Samajwadi Party legislators staged demonstrations inside and outside the assembly with sugarcanes in their hands, demanding immediate payment of cane dues to the farmers.
Congress MLA Aradhana Mishra Mona, party's state president Ajay Kumar Lallu and others marched from Gandhi statue in Hazratganj to the Vidhan Bhawan, demanding removal of Teni from the Union council of ministers.
The three-day winter session of UP assembly began on Wednesday. The vote on account as well as supplementary budget would be tabled on Thursday.
On the first day of the winter session, the House was adjourned for a day after paying homage to the deceased Bahujan Samaj Party MLA and former UP Assembly Speaker Sukhdeo Rajbhar and others.
The chief minister and leaders of other parties expressed condolences to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 11 other military officials who recently died in an air crash in Tamil Nadu.
As per the programme released by UP Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit, on Thursday the second supplementary budget of the current fiscal would be tabled in the House along with the vote on account for the first four months of the financial year 2022-23. The vote on account for the period of April to July 2022 would be of Rs 1.75 lakh crore.
The supplementary budget to be tabled on Thursday might have financial provisions for various mega projects and voter-friendly schemes in the wake of coming assembly polls.
It is learnt that the model code of conduct could be imposed in January and the state government would like to make allocation of funds for projects and schemes before it. In the supplementary budget, allocations could be made for laptop and smartphone distribution to youths, ongoing construction of expressways and metro projects of Kanpur, Agra and Gorakhpur.
Meanwhile, Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit later in the day presided over an all-party meeting also attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Leader of opposition and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Govind Chaudhary assured the speaker of extending their cooperation for the smooth conduct of the proceedings of the House.
This will be the last session of the 17th UP Assembly.