The Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly will resume on Monday after a gap of nearly two and a half months. The brief eight-day session is likely to be stormy.
The House will be meeting in the backdrop of State Legislative Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar disqualifying 15 MLAs, nine from the ruling Congress party and six of the opposition Telugu Desam Party, for supporting the YSR Congress Party during the motion of no-confidence against the Kiran Reddy Government.
These members were disqualified for defying their respective part whips and voting in favour of the no-confidence motion against the Government in March.
The Kiran Reddy Government, which survived the no-confidence motion, now has 147 members, which includes one independent in a House reduced to 278 members from the total strength of 294 following disqualification of 15 members.
The House has lot of pending bills as Opposition members stalled the house proceedings when the State Budget was presented amidst walkouts and suspensions in March.
The reports submitted by various departmental standing committees will be taken up for discussion as a part of the budgetary process.
The opposition parties have been moving adjournment motions and the Speaker has been disallowing them. They continue to protest in the House, stalling proceedings. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi members have been demanding a resolution in support of separate Statehood.
The Telangana Joint Action Committee has given a call for Chalo Assembly on June 14 seeking to pressurise the Government on the separate Statehood issue.