Tripura budget to be tabled on March 1
Guwahati: The budget session of the state assembly will begin on March 1 in Tripura and the Finance Minister Pranajit Singha Roy is expected to table the state budget on the first day of the assembly.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath said that the session will have three working days after a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC).
“In the five-day long session, there will be three working days. It will be better if the working days can be extended but we all want to finish the budget session before the announcement of Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
Meanwhile, the leader of the opposition Animesh Debbarma questioned the rationale of holding a brief session ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
“There was absolutely no need to have a brief session. Will the ministers be able to answer the questions of the MLAs in two or three days? Assembly is the place where issues related to people are discussed but this scope is gradually being reduced,” he said.
Senior CPI(M) MLA Jitendra Chowdhury criticised the BJP government in the state, and said, “This is called the model of democracy in which one side speaks and the other side is forced to remain silent. We strongly oppose the way working days are being curtailed in the assembly.”
