Akhilesh faces eventful Assembly session
The Budget Session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly that begins on Monday will be eventful for chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
As the state’s youngest chief minister, Mr Yadav will present his first Budget on June 1 and will face the Assembly for almost one month as its leader. The session will reveal his oratory skills and allow him to come into his own in legislative working.
The Samajwadi Party government will get an opportunity to fulfil the aspirations of the people by making budgetary provisions for all the sops announced by the party in it election manifesto. The government is expected to make provisions for unemployment allowance, tablets and laptops for students and stipend for Muslim girls. The shift in ideology will be visible as the focus shifts from dalits (in the Mayawati government) to Muslims (in the SP rule).
The chief minister, meanwhile, can hope for “soft treatment” from both the Congress and the BJP. Both the parties, despite statements to the contrary, are in no mood to grill the new chief minister and want to give him more time before they pass judgment on his performance.
The truth, however, is that the Congress wants to handle the Samajwadi Party with kid gloves and has sent clear signals to its legislator that the ruling party must not be “troubled unnecessarily”. The Congress is keen to keep the Samajwadis in good humour and sees the party as a prospective UPA partner in power-sharing.
The BJP, on the other, is equally keen to woo Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the party leadership has asked the state unit not to be “unduly harsh” on the young chief minister — at least for the time being. The chief minister, however, could face some tough moments from the Opposition BSP. The BSP, according to sources, is determined to give a gruelling time to Mr Yadav by raking up issues related to the deteriorating law and order situation, power crisis, farmers’ suicides and marginalisation of dalit officers in the bureaucracy.
“The state is reeling under the impact of poor governance and deplorable law and order situation and we will definitely raise these issues in the assembly,” said BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.
The BSP, it is learnt, is all set to adopt an offensive posture in the Assembly.
and divert attention from corruption issues of the Mayawati rule.
Interestingly, the BSP stayed away from the all party meeting convened by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav at his official residence on Sunday, giving ample indication of its posture during the Budget Session.
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