By IANS
Hyderabad : The budget session of Andhra Pradesh legislature will begin Monday. It will commence with Governor N.D. Tiwari addressing the joint session of the assembly and the council.
On the second day, the assembly will pay tributes to its sitting member and senior Congress leader P. Janardhan Reddy, who died Dec 28. The debate on motion of thanks to the governor’s address will be taken up from Feb 13.
Finance Minister K. Rosaiah will table the state budget Feb 16. This will be the last budget of the Congress government as assembly elections are scheduled in March 2009.
It is after a gap of over two decades that a joint budget session of the two houses is being held.
The 90-member council was revived in April last year, after a gap of 22 years. Then chief minister N.T. Rama Rao abolished the council saying it caused a drain on the state exchequer.
The Congress party had promised to revive the council in the 2004 elections.
The budget session, likely to continue till March 27, is likely to be a stormy one with the opposition parties gearing up to corner the government on various issues.
The Telangana issue is also likely to generate heat in the legislature as the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has announced that all its legislators and MPs will resign if the Congress-led government ruling India failed to initiate the process of granting separate statehood to Telangana region by March 6.