Congress legislators would reach the Chhattisgarh Assembly on bullock carts on Wednesday to protest the steep rise in the prices of petroleum products.
A meeting of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) was held here on Tuesday in which the legislators under leadership of Leader of Opposition, T.S. Singhdeo chalked out a strategy for the concluding day of the two-day session.
It was decided in the meeting by the legislators to proceed unitedly from State Congress Office ‘Rajiv Bhawan’ situated at Shankar Nagar at 9 am so that they could reach the Assembly on time at 10.30 am.
The Assembly Session on Wednesday is expected to be stormy as the main opposition Congress will also bring adjournment motion on the issue with a demand of reducing Value Added Tax (VAT) in the state.
The opposition Congress will also raise the issue of declaring pending bonus of five years and may also bring the issue of State Government providing Rs 300 bonus during procurement of paddy on Minimum Support Price from November 1, this year before Assembly polls.