Poll campaign issues to spill over into Assembly session

As the budget session of legislature from Monday will begin within three days of the conclusion of the campaign for Legislative Council elections, the ruling TRS and Opposition parties were expected to continue their charges and counter-charges that they left behind in the campaign.

The session will begin with the traditional address of Governor to both Houses of legislature followed by speeches on the condolence motion to mourn the death of MLAs, mainly Nomula Narasimhaiah of TRS, and motion of thanks to the Governor’s address in the subsequent days. The budget presentation was likely to be taken up on Thursday and then go into demands of various departments before winding up finally with the passage of Appropriation Bill well before March 31. Sources said the budget session of Assembly and Council had given an opportunity to leaders of TRS and rival parties to come face to face on charges that they traded in election campaign incognito. Issues like employment, shelving of Information Technology Investment Region for Hyderabad, unemployment allowance, fuel price hike and farm laws enacted by Centre which were the focus of campaign will repeat themselves if the parties stuck to the challenges that they threw days earlier.