Vote-on-account session may be stormy
2 Feb 2009, 0258 hrs IST, TNN
HYDERBAD: With the grand alliance now firmly in place, the brief ten-day vote -on-account session promises to be a stormy one. The floor leaders of alliance met here on Sunday evening and finalised the issues they would raise during the session and the strategy they should follow to put the government in the dock.
The session would begin with the governor's joint address to both the houses at 11 am followed by the meeting of the business advisory committee. This being the last session before the general elections, the opposition parties as well as the ruling Congress want to utilize their lung power and rehearse for the electoral campaign. While the opposition parties want to highlight and force a discussion on the Satyam fraud and the manner in which government had handed over projects worth more than Rs 30,000 crore to Maytas, the Congress party wants to counter the opposition by raising the alleged fraud in Heritage.
Realising this, the opposition party leaders who met on Sunday decided to dare the government to take action if it had concrete evidence of any wrong doings. Meanwhile, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy asked the opposition not to waste the time on frivolous issues and said he was ready for a discussion on any issue. He said even now the government was ready to take a delegation of opposition party leaders round the country and let them compare the progress made by Andhra Pradesh and other states. The opposition wants to highlight power problems in the state, corruption in irrigation, shortage of funds of BC SC welfare hostels etc.
In the last four years, 79 projects have been taken up under Jalayagnam, 30 lakh pumpsets got free power and the domestic power tariff was never hiked in last five years.
According to senior members of the assembly, the 12th assembly had witnessed lowering of its decorum by resorting to accusations and counter accusations. Quoting a survey report of a private TV channel, they said the amount spent by ex-chequer on the time consumed by the chief minister to criticise the opposition leader is said to be about Rs 2 crore and the time taken for it was 67 hours. Naidu consumed 8 hours to launch counter attack and this costed the ex-chequer Rs 50 lakhs. Though so far the assembly had sitting of 284 days no short discussions or call attention motions could be taken up.
Similarly while 2480 questions were filed only 980 came up for discussion.
2 Feb 2009, 0258 hrs IST, TNN
HYDERBAD: With the grand alliance now firmly in place, the brief ten-day vote -on-account session promises to be a stormy one. The floor leaders of alliance met here on Sunday evening and finalised the issues they would raise during the session and the strategy they should follow to put the government in the dock.
The session would begin with the governor's joint address to both the houses at 11 am followed by the meeting of the business advisory committee. This being the last session before the general elections, the opposition parties as well as the ruling Congress want to utilize their lung power and rehearse for the electoral campaign. While the opposition parties want to highlight and force a discussion on the Satyam fraud and the manner in which government had handed over projects worth more than Rs 30,000 crore to Maytas, the Congress party wants to counter the opposition by raising the alleged fraud in Heritage.
Realising this, the opposition party leaders who met on Sunday decided to dare the government to take action if it had concrete evidence of any wrong doings. Meanwhile, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy asked the opposition not to waste the time on frivolous issues and said he was ready for a discussion on any issue. He said even now the government was ready to take a delegation of opposition party leaders round the country and let them compare the progress made by Andhra Pradesh and other states. The opposition wants to highlight power problems in the state, corruption in irrigation, shortage of funds of BC SC welfare hostels etc.
In the last four years, 79 projects have been taken up under Jalayagnam, 30 lakh pumpsets got free power and the domestic power tariff was never hiked in last five years.
According to senior members of the assembly, the 12th assembly had witnessed lowering of its decorum by resorting to accusations and counter accusations. Quoting a survey report of a private TV channel, they said the amount spent by ex-chequer on the time consumed by the chief minister to criticise the opposition leader is said to be about Rs 2 crore and the time taken for it was 67 hours. Naidu consumed 8 hours to launch counter attack and this costed the ex-chequer Rs 50 lakhs. Though so far the assembly had sitting of 284 days no short discussions or call attention motions could be taken up.
Similarly while 2480 questions were filed only 980 came up for discussion.
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