Winter session of U.P. assembly from today

LUCKNOW : The winter session of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly will commence on Monday during which the state government will present its supplementary budget for the financial year 2022-23.

The session is likely to have three sittings. On the eve of start of the session, an all-party meeting was held at the Vidhan Bhawan under the chairmanship of assembly speaker Satish

Mahana. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav did not attend the meeting.

The U.P. Legislative Assembly Business Advisory Committee held a meeting to decide the agenda of the winter session on Sunday. Legislative assembly speaker Satish Mahana said, “On the first day of the session, the assembly will condole the death of the members and birthday greetings will also be extended to the members on December 5 and 6.”

Earlier, in the all-party meeting, Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Pandey, who represented the party in the absence of Leader of the Opposition Akhilesh Yadav, raised the demand to pay condolence to SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav during the session. The demand of the SP was accepted, Pandey said and added SP chief Akhilesh Yadav might not be able to attend the session on Monday. There will also be no question hour on Monday.

Leader of the Bahujan Samaj

Party (BSP) legislature party Umashankar Singh said, “The BSP demanded that there should be more sittings during the winter session. The members should get an opportunity to raise the issues of public interest and draw the attention of the state government to various matters of public concern. Leader of Congress legislature party Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’ and Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) legislature party leader Raghuraj Pratap Singh ‘Raja Bhaiya’ too demanded more sittings of the house during the session. Parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Kumar Khanna assured all the party leaders that the government will work with full seriousness to give new momentum to the development and take it forward. The government was committed to taking positive action on all issues, he said. Khanna appealed to all the party leaders for cooperation in the house.

Assembly speaker Satish Mahana requested cooperation from all party leaders.