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Assam assembly budget session to begin from Jan 30

| | Jan 30, 2017, at 01:00 am
Guwahati, Jan 29 (IBNS) : Opposition Congress and AIUDF are ready to raise several buring issues including demonetization in the budget session of Assam assembly to be begun from Jan 30.

The opposition leader in assembly and Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia said that, his party to raise the issues of ongoing the process to upgrade the National Register of Citizens (NRC),  state government’s eviction drive, demonetization etc.

“The present BJP led state government totally failed to compete the development schemes, projects which were announced in the previous state budget. Overall 90% schemes are still pending as the current financial year to end,” Debabrata Saikia said.

On the other hand, the AIUDF will raise the issues including mainly eviction drives conducted by the state government across the state.

An AIUDF MLA said that, the state government has always targeting a special community people.

On the other hand, Jorhat MLA Hitendranath Goswami will be sworn in as the new speaker of Assam assembly on the first day of the budget session, following former speaker Ranjit Das had resigned from the post after he selected as the BJP’s state unit president.

The state budget for the financial year 2017-18 will be tabled on Feb 7.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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