Stormy Assembly session on cards
In Short
- Political street battles may spill over to House
- Will BRS and BJP, on the same page on most public issues, coordinate to corner the treasury benches?
- Ruling party to adopt an aggressive strategy to counter opposition parties
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Stormy Assembly session on cards
Hyderabad: Amid heightened political tensions, with opposition and ruling parties indulging in prolonged street battles demanding the resignation of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Leader of the Opposition K Chandrasekhar Rao respectively, the monsoon sessions of the Telangana Legislative Assembly and the Council, set to begin on Monday, is likely to be stormy, to say the least.
Some political observers believe that if the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and the Bharatiya Janata Party act in coordination in the House, the situation could take a different shape this time. For, though the two parties have been holding separate protests, many of the issues they are raising are common. It remains to be seen whether they will adopt a coordinated strategy inside the Assembly or pursue their agendas individually. The ruling party is bound to face intractable difficulties in the Assembly if the BRS and BJP coordinate their moves within the House, considering that the ruling party has been alleging that the two parties are “working together”.
There is also a possibility that both the parties may mount pressure on the ruling party by pursuing their own strategies without joining hands in the House.
Whatever it be, the Congress government is preparing to highlight its welfare schemes, developmental programmes, investments, progress of irrigation projects and constituency-level development initiatives, among others.
The ruling party is going to adopt an aggressive strategy to attack and counter the strategies of the BRS and the BJP. As things stand, the BRS and the BJP are gearing up individually to put the government on the defensive over public issues, mainly unkept election promises, farmers’ concerns, woes of the unemployed and students– particularly fee reimbursement arrears, land disputes, and short-changing of TG in allocation of water resources.
The BRS and BJP have already prepared charge-sheets, focusing on failures of the Congress government during its 1,000-day period. The two parties have been staging street corner protests on similar issues, including Section 22-A, fee reimbursement, pending welfare schemes, irrigation, and the state’s share of Krishna and Godavari waters. They may target the government on these issues.
The BRS has been holding protests also at the grassroots level over the implementation of the Revanth Reddy government’s election promises, Section 22-A, farm loan waiver and the alleged incomplete implementation of the loan waiver as well as fertiliser shortage.
The party is expected to focus on pressing issues, including job creation, pending fee reimbursement, welfare schemes, irrigation and the State’s share of Krishna and Godavari waters. The BRS has prepared a strategy to corner the government in the Assembly on these issues.
The BJP has also made Section 22-A, fee reimbursement and farmers’ issues main items on its agenda. In view of the recent protest and arrest of the BJP state unit president over fee reimbursement arrears, the issue is likely to generate substantial political heat during the session.
Problems faced by polytechnic students, delays in the release of Kalyana Lakshmi funds, pending bills under the Indiramma housing scheme, urea shortage and farmers’ concerns are also expected to be raised through Question Hour, Zero Hour and other legislative proceedings.
