The budget session of the assembly will begin on Tuesday with the address of Governor Lieutenant General Gurmeet Singh (retd). It will give a glimpse of the government’s resolve for a strong Uttarakhand. In the session, on February 20, the government will present the state’s budget for the year 2025-26. The size of the budget is estimated to be more than one lakh crore rupees. MLAs have put 521 questions for the budget session. Apart from this, more than half a dozen bills will be introduced and the same number of ordinances will be tabled in the House. The budget session is being conducted for the first time under e-Neva (National e-Vidhan Application). Tabs have been installed on the tables of all the ministers and MLAs in the assembly hall. Agenda, Q&A and budget will be available to them in it.
At the same time, the opposition has made a strategy to surround the government from the road to the House on all issues like land law, domicile, law and order, neglect of farmers. Key points of the session
The opposition will try to corner the government on many issues like land law, domicile
The BJP will finalize the strategy today to answer the opposition’s attacks
In this scenario, there will be a tussle between the ruling party and the opposition during the session. To answer the opposition’s attacks, the strategy will be finalized in the meeting of the BJP Legislature Party on Tuesday. In this scenario, there can be a lot of tussle between the ruling party and the opposition in the session. The dates for the budget session have been fixed from 18 to 24 February. This time the MLAs will also get a new experience due to the session being conducted under e-Nava. This step has been taken in the direction of making the assembly paperless. On Monday, the meeting of the business advisory committee of the assembly was held under the chairmanship of the Speaker of the Assembly Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, in which the agenda till February 20 was decided. According to the fixed agenda, the Governor’s address will be held on Tuesday at 11 am and the Speaker will read it at 3 pm.
Discussion on general budget and departmental budget
On February 19, there will be discussion on the Governor’s address, presentation and discussion of the motion of thanks. Along with this, legislative work will be done. The budget for the financial year 2025-26 will be presented on February 20 at 12.30 pm. Along with this, there will be discussion on general budget and departmental budget. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal, Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya, BSP Legislature Leader Mohammad Shahzad, BJP MLAs Khajan Das and Umesh Sharma Kau, Congress MLA Pritam Singh were present in the meeting. Earlier, the Speaker of the Assembly held a meeting with the party leaders and expected cooperation in running the House smoothly. The opposition assured cooperation on the issues raised in the interest of the state and the people of the state. Assembly Speaker Khanduri said that the cooperation of all the members is expected for a meaningful and quality discussion on issues related to development. On the other hand, the strategy for the session was decided in the meeting of the Congress Legislature Party.
