Brief winter session of the State legislature that begins from Friday is expected to be a stormy with Opposition parties raising issues related to law and order, cane price and power crisis.
“The Government is ready to discuss development issues with the opposition. Whatever be their issues the government will readily answer them,” Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said after all-party meeting where leaders promised support to Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey in smooth conduct of the House.
Yadav said Uttar Pradesh state assembly has a glorious past. “I assure of full cooperation from the treasury benches and expect the same from the opposition that they would use the time to find solutions to the problems people are facing,” he said. He also urged the legislators to create an environment wherein constructive deliberations on problems faced by people of the state take place and a positive solution is found by the state government State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Azam Khan said government wants smooth conduct of the House and wants that every agenda should be taken up. “All depends on the Opposition as they try to grab the attention of the media by making noisy scenes and raising media friendly issues,” he said.
During the week-long session, Government’s main agenda would be to get supplementary grants passed. The Business Advisory Committee that met on Thursday confirmed that the Government will lay the grants on the table on November 17. The next day it would be discussed and on November the same would be passed.The House is sure to witness pandemonium as Opposition is all geared to raise issues like law and order, payment of cane dues. leader of BJP legislature party Suresh Kumar Khanna said that his party will raise different public issues during the session. Khanna alleged that the state government’s claim of development is a farce and added that the only welfare that has taken place in the state has in the selected region.
The BJP leader said the party members will also demand from the UP government to share information about budgetary allocation and its utilization.Congress legislature party leader Pradeep Mathur said that his party would raise people oriented issues. Our main concern is development
and we would make Government answer why UP is lagging behind in all fronts, he said. RlD leader Dalbeer Singh said that they would force Government to raise cane price. “It is a joke. The government has not raised cane price when prices of other commodities have increased,” he said.
There is a possibility that the report of the sting operation in the Muzaffarnagar riots could also be tabled in the House in this session by the probing committee.