Chennai: After the general budget was presented in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, an official review meeting was held at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Assembly Speaker JCD Prabhakar. Later, speaking to reporters, the Speaker said: The agricultural budget for the current year will be presented in the Assembly on the 6th (today).
The budget debate and reply speech will be held for 4 days. On the 7th (tomorrow), condolences will be expressed for the passing of former MLAs and prominent personalities. Following that, the day's debate will begin. The 8th and 9th (Saturday and Sunday) will be holidays. From the 10th to the 12th, the budget debate will take place, and on the final day, ministers will deliver their reply speeches. If there are any government bills, they will be examined and passed.
After that, the debate on departmental grant demands and the ministers' reply speeches will be held from Aug. 17 to Sept. 8. In this, Chief Minister Vijay's reply speech will take place on Sept. 7.
Some members have requested that their seats be changed. According to the rules, if they contest and win on the symbol of an alliance party, they will be considered members of that party. Seats and speaking time will be allotted accordingly. If they had won on a separate symbol, they would be allowed to speak separately. As of now, Palaniswami is the leader of the AIADMK legislative assembly group. He said this.
Will run for 21 days: The Legislative Assembly budget session, which began yesterday (Aug. 5), is scheduled to continue until Sept. 8. However, the Assembly will not meet on all Saturdays and Sundays during the intervening period. Likewise, holidays have been declared from Aug. 13 to 15 in observance of Independence Day, on Aug. 26 for Milad-un-Nabi, and on Sept. 4 for Krishna Jayanthi. In that sense, the Assembly session will run for only 21 days.
