The brief Monsoon session of Chhattisgarh Assembly beginning on Monday is set to be stormy as main Opposition Congress has decided to take on Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal for his alleged role in a land grab case on outskirts of Raipur.
The stage is set for a massive showdown as the Congress has threatened to move a no-confidence motion against Agrawal while the ruling BJP is preparing to counter it strongly in a 90-member State Assembly. The Opposition has also planned to move a series of adjournment motions on several key issues.
The Congress legislature party meeting has been called on Sunday to give a final touch to its strategy to corner the BJP in the assembly session which will conclude on July 25. The Congress has also expressed its strong displeasure to the Government for curtailing the Monsoon Session to just for five days. leader of the Opposition TS Singhdeo has already registered his protest on this matter and still insisting that Monsoon Session needed to be extended.
Congress which has 39 MlAs, could raise on the very first day itself on the issue of alleged land grab by the Assembly Speaker at village Chargan and a temple built by him on it. The Congress has already said that is mulling over a plan to bring a no-confidence motion against him.
Congress has also planned to move adjournment motions on the issues of jaundice-related deaths, power tariff hike and mass rejection of ration cards. The Congress claimed that the BJP Ministers have spent a huge amount of money in the renovation of their official bungalows and party would raise it in the Assembly.