Jaipur, Aug 21: The monsoon session of Rajasthan assembly commences today. The session gains importance in view of the elections slated later this year. The sesion is likely to be stormy with both Congress and BJP in election mode. The two parties are likely to use the House as a curtain raiser to the coming assembly elections and both have already indicated their resolve to expose each other.
The BJP legislative party has already finalised the issues of inefficiency, incompetence and corruption of the Gehlot government to be raised in the Assembly.
"We shall be raising with full force the financial mess into which the state has been pushed by the Congress government by its huge borrowings for non-productive purposes," a BJP spokesman said.
The opposition would also expose the state government's "complete insensitiveness" towards drought-hit people as it spent little from its own budget to help the people.
"Had the Centre not come forward with generous grants of wheat, finances and free rail transportation of fodder and drinking water, the miseries of the people could not have been reduced,'' he said.
Replying to the BJP's charges, the Congress spokesman said the "achievements" of Gehlot government would be highlighted in the House with "confidence".
"We are ready to meet any challenge thrown by the BJP whose leaders would be in the dock for inadequate central assistance to the state," he said.
The government would also like to complete some pending legislative business, including passing some amendment bills.
Bureau Report