Assembly session begins today

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 12. The monsoon session of the Assembly begins at 9|30 a.m. on Thursday.

The House will adjourn after adopting a motion condoling the death of Anne Babu Rao, who represented Vuyyur constituency, on the opening day and decide the agenda and duration of the brief session at the business advisory committee meeting later. This will be preceded by the customary breakfast hosted by the Speaker to the Chief Minister, his colleagues and the floor leaders.

The Telugu Desam and the Congress legislature parties are also meeting tomorrow to formulate respective strategies as a number of ``burning issues'' are bound to figure in the proceedings.

The Speaker, Mrs. K. Prathibha Bharati, reviewed the arrangements for the session with senior officials, the police top brass and the media. Mrs. Prathibha Bharati, the Minister for Finance and Legislative Affairs, Mr. Yanamala Ramakrushnudu, the Legislature Secretary, Mr. Tuljanand Singh, who went to Australia for the International Parliamentary Union conference, cut short their visit and returned in time for the session.

The Government business includes seeking ratification of six ordinances and a bill by the House. They are AP Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Ordinance, AP Tax on Luxuries (Amendment) Ord, AP Sales Tax (Settlement of Disputes) Ord, AP Infrastructure Development Enabling Ord, AP Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Ord, AP Water, Land and Trees Ord and AP Societies Regulation Bill.

With the monsoon session viewed by some as being all too brief, representatives of 9 left parties met the Speaker and submitted a memorandum urging her to ensure that the House sat for at least 15 days. Messrs S. Sudhakar Reddy, secretary of the State CPI, and B. V. Raghavulu, secretary of the State CPI(M), led the Left delegation.

The Telugu Desam 'strategy committee' is understood to have identified a number of issues for raising in the House like prevailing drought, remunerative prices for farmers, farmers suicides, spate of violent incidents relating to the local bodies polls, atrocities on Scheduled Castes/Tribes, power position, Yeleru compensation, Krushi Bank fraud, elections to Hyderabad Corporation and drinking water needs of the Capital.

The Congress proposes to highlight the Government's 'failure' to meet the drought challenge, tackle power shortage, contain atrocities on weaker sections and political violence, and of course, the Yeleru scam.

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