A brief Winter Session of Uttar Pradesh state legislature has been convened from December 15 and it is expected to be the last session of the 17th UP Assembly as elections are expected in February- March next year.
The notification for convening the session was issued by the UP Assembly secretariat in Lucknow on Wednesday.
During the brief session, the government is likely to approve vote-on- accounts for the first four months of the next fiscal 2022-23. On December 6 last, the state cabinet had approved to convene the Winter Session from December 15.
Official sources said that the government would also bring the Finance Bill for the second supplementary budget for the 2021-22 fiscal. The second supplementary is being brought to finance the government budgeted expenditure for the remaining last quarter of the current fiscal ending on March 31, 2022. Also the supplementary budget would cover several populist schemes likely to be announced by the government during the session and construction of the Ganga Expressway.
"This session would be short because Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants a meeting of the cabinet at the newly-constructed Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor complex at Varanasi. The government wants this session immediately because of khar mass (inauspicious month) beginning from December 19,” said an official.