A three-day session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly beginning in Lucknow tomorrow would be marked by the absence of 84 legislators from the Samajwadi Party (SP) who had resigned from the house. Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Swami Prasad Maurya would be the new leader of the opposition in the depleted house.
The BSP emerged as the largest opposition party in the house after the mass resignation of the SP members.
The brief session of the assembly would also be without another SP member Ram Autar Shakya, who died of illness on Monday. Apart from the passage of supplementary budgetary demands, the assembly was likely to approve as many as eight ordinances including the all important reservation to the most backward castes (MBCs) in the state.
Other ordinaces, which were promulgated after the last session and would be placed before the house for approval and subsequently be replaced by bills are UP state backward commission (amendment) ordinace, 2001, UP SC and ST Commission (amendment) Ordinance, 2001, UP Minority Commission (Amendment) Ordinance, 2001, UP Maharshi Information Technology University Ordinance, 2001, UP Jagadguru Ram Bhadracharya Handicapped University Ordinance, 2001, Police (UP amendment) Ordinance, 2001 and UP State Women Commission Ordinance, 2001. Bureau Report