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State differs monsoon session of Maharashtra legislature to September 7
The monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature has been postponed once again for more than a month. It is now expected to start on September 7. The decision
The monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature has been postponed once again for more than a month. It is now expected to start on September 7. The decision was taken in a meeting of the business advisory committee (BAC) of the state legislature on Tuesday.
The session was supposed to start from August 3 as decided in the previous BAC meeting held on June 10.
BAC, which comprises chairman of the legislative Council Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, speaker of the Assembly Nana Patole, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and leaders of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and Pravin Darekar, decided to postpone the session by five weeks.
“Considering the Covid-19 situation, the committee decided to postpone the session until September 7. Other details such as the period of the session, etc, have not yet to be finalised,” said Anil Parab, state parliamentary affairs minister, following the meeting.
Generally, the monsoon session is held for two to three weeks, but this time, it would depend on the pandemic situation in the state. “Other details will be decided in another BAC meeting likely to be called eight to 10 days before the session begins,” said an official from the state legislature.
This is the second time the session has been postponed. It was scheduled to start on June 22 but was postponed to August 3 owing to the lockdown restrictions.
As an alternative, the state also has plans to conduct the session online, for which demonstrations from firms such as Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Blue Jeans, and Alcatel that provide videoconference platforms, have been taken. With the facility in place, legislators will not have to participate physically and can attend the proceedings through their computers and smartphones.
“The BAC is yet to decide on holding the session online,” said the official.
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