Assembly session begins today

By Our Principal Correspondent

RAIPUR, JULY 22. The third session of the Chhatisgarh Assembly, beginning here on Monday, is expected to witness some fireworks with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) all set to take on the ruling party on various issues including the scandals and the infamous lathi-charge on Opposition members outside the Chief Minister's residence in April.

The BJP appears to be ready to confront the Congress on various issues like suicide by farmers due to acute poverty and the so- called furniture scandal. The noise to be made this time will be louder since the national in-charge of Chhatisgarh, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, has visited the State twice and infused some life in the party which was otherwise collapsing due to in- fightings.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the Leader of Opposition, Mr. Nand Kumar Sai, said the Legislative Party would devise a strategy to corner the Government. ``The Adivasis and the Backward Classes have been the most victimised ever since the Government took over. There are no doctors in the Primary Health Centres and no teachers in the schools but the Government claims to be totally dedicated to the upliftment of the BCs and the adivasis,'' he added. Making a specific reference to the alleged suicides by farmers due to poverty, Mr. Sai said the Government's claims of seeds for every field have fallen flat due to these suicides.

Some important Bills including the one on increasing the allowances for MLAs is expected to be passed in this two-week long session which will have 10 sittings. The Bill had been tabled in the House in the last session but could not be passed.

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