The maiden 23-day-long budget session of the Mufti Sayeed Government in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will begin today. The budget would be presented on March 22 and general discussion on budget will be held on March 23 and 24, he said.
Accordingly, the demands for grants for various departments would be presented from March 25 to March 29 and the Appropriation Bills and Private Members Bills will be taken up on March 30 and March 31.
Similarly, Private Members Resolutions will be taken up on April 1, while Government Business, Private Member's Bills, Private Members Resolutions and Government Business, if any will be taken up on April 6, 7, 8 and 9 respectively.
Oath of the MLAs, including Chief Minister Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed and former chief minister Omar Abdullah, took place yesterday.
Session will be starting from March 18, with the Governor's address to Legislature and the House sittings would continue till April 9.
Hitting out at the BJP-PDP coalition for total u-turns on the ideological issues of self-rule, Article-370, One-constitution, one flag (Eik Vidhan and Eik nishan) and delimitation of coalition partners, the Congress sought replies over "double standards".
"We will question the two coalition partners... where is the self-rule slogan of PDP, where is Eik Vidhan and Eik Nishan and scrapping of Article 370 in J-K... as they had promised...?" Mr Mir said.
BJP said it will oppose the resolution moved in the state Assembly by an independent MLA seeking mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and hoped that its coalition partner PDP will support them.
PDP MLA Yasir Dilwar Mir said that it is the humanitarian issue to grant the mortal remains of Afzal Guru to his family.
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