With a plethora of issues to be addressed, the ruling Congress party is likely to face the heat in the Assembly session.
The winter session scheduled to start from December 10th is likely to be quite stormy and uneasy for the ruling benches.
It is indicated that the Opposition, particularly the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), will utilise this occasion to press the government for an adjournment motion on the Telangana issue. If not, then the students' arrest is most likely to take centre stage. So far, there have been no attempts to lift the cases against those students who had participated in the recent Telangana agitation.
Therefore this, coupled with an array of pending problems like SCs' categorisation and MSP for paddy among others, will bundle up to unite the opposition to seek a common platform to corner the Treasury benches.
Though the ruling party had received a breather with Y S Jaganmohan Reddy delaying the launch of his political party, there is enough trouble in store for the Congress. Their own party leaders from Telangana are keen on raising the separate statehood issue.
The TRS is also most likely to raise another contentious issue - the 'Free Zone' issue - on the floor of the House to elicit a suitable reply from the government, which had allowed undue delay in getting clause 14F erased.
The main opposition, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), will miss no chance to take advantage of the volatile situation. While pressing with its demand for a separate Telangana, it will also direct its guns over categorisation, paddy MSP, farmers' woes and the 'instability' factor which is a thorn in the Congress' flesh.
Of all, the Congress' change of guard can be attributed to be its main weakness in its vulnerable armour. Of late, the TDP has also started towing the line of the TRS to press for the tabling of the Telangana Bill in the Parliament.
Though the BAC exercise is rather routine, the 6-day session may drive the Congress leaders to the wall.
The strategies to be adopted by Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has the full backing of the High Command, is sure to hit the headlines.
The BJP with 2 seats, the CPI with 4, and the CPM and the Lok Satta Party with 1 each, are expected to raise their heads to be in the news. While the MIM with 7 MLAs may not spare its ally as well, the PRP is somewhat mercurial - even if it has already given a verbal support to the ruling party, to make its presence felt, it may still join the 'chorus' on the floor.
Courtesy: INN