50-Day Session Of Telangana Assembly Till Nov 30

The winter session of the Telangana Legislative Assembly commencing on Friday will last for 50 days, till November 30.

This was decided at the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting held this morning in the Speaker's chambers. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Speaker Padma Devender Reddy as Speaker Madhusudhana Chary is not keeping good health and is undergoing treatment in the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS).

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari, Minister for Legislative Affairs T Harish Rao and Government Whip Koppula Eshwar represented the ruling TRS at the meeting, while Leader Of Opposition K Jana Reddy, Bhatti Vikramarka and G Chinna Reddy represented the Congress. G Kishan Reddy (BJP), Sandra Venkata Veeraiah (Telangana TDP) and Akbaruddin Owaisi (MIM) also attended the meeting representing their respective parties.

The BAC decided to meet every day except on Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 am to 1:30 pm. The Assembly will have a holiday during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the city towards the end of November. (The Prime Minister will be inaugurating the Global Entrepreneurs Summit (GES) and also the Hyderabad Metro Rail.)

It was also decided to extend the duration of Question Hour from one hour to one-and-a-half hours. The Congress proposal to take up adjournment motions before Question Hour was opposed by the government and rejected. The government felt that the adjournment motions could be taken up after Zero Hour based on the merit of the issue.

It was also decided that the Assembly, after Question Hour on every Friday, would adjourn, and thereupon the BAC would once again sit to finalize the agenda for the coming days of the session.

The BJP presented a 12-point agenda to be taken up during the session for discussions, which included crop losses due to unexpected heavy rains, remunerative prices for farmers' produce, the activities of the land mafia, damaged road conditions in the GHMC limits, atrocities on dalits and so on.

After the BAC meeting, the Chief Minister, in a brief interaction with the media, expressed his displeasure over the move of the Congress to organize its Chalo Assembly rally of the farmers on the very first day of the commencement of the legislature session. He felt that when the government was ready to discuss any issue on the floor of the House and was even prepared to extend the duration of the session, the Congress protest rally was unwarranted and quite unfortunate.