Lucknow, Aug 17: The Uttar Pradesh government will present a Rs.22,000 crore supplementary budget within the assembly on Monday.
This is the biggest supplementary budget to be given by any government and comes amid allegations by opposition parties that several important departments within the Samajwadi Party (SP) government have didn’t pay the fund allocations within the current financial year.
The monsoon session had begun last week but had been adjourned after paying homage to late president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
As the session resumes on Monday, each treasury and opposition benches are reconciled to a face off because the opposition parties are set to raise problems like corruption, poor law and order and issues of farmers.
Even insiders in the ruling party admit that floor management was a “worrying prospect”.
The main opposition — Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can raise the difficulty of atrocities on Dalit, communal clashes and poor law and order and the leader of opposition Swamy Prasad Maurya has created it clear that the party can launch an “all out offensive” on the Akhilesh Yadav government.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) has announced an agitation against the state government and will gehrao the Vidhan Sabha later in the day.
The party’s national general secretary Madhusudan Mistry, Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari, Sanjay Singh, P.L. Punia and all state leaders are participating within the protest march which can aise 11-point charter.
Leader of the BJP legislature party Suresh Khanna said the Akhilesh Yadav government will need to explain the necessity for such an enormous supplementary budget, specially since the initial fund allocation of the current financial had not been spent.
