The Andhra Pradesh Assembly's Budget session beginning on Saturday is going to be a big challenge for Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, as the YSR Congress party is planning to mount an attack from all sides.
Generally, the budget session would run for 30 working days, but the fact that the Speaker has curtailed it for only 18 working days itself shows that the ruling party is trying to avoid embarrassment from the Opposition party which is all out to expose the government on several crucial issues.
The YSR Congress party headed by Jaganmohan Reddy is gearing up to trouble the TDP with no-confidence motion against the government as well as the Speaker, besides stalling the budget presentation.
The party is seething with anger following eight of its MLAs crossing over to the TDP and its MLA RK Roja suspended for one year in the last session for her alleged unparliamentary comments against ruling party members.
Besides, the illegal land purchases in the capital region, failure of promises like loan waivers for farmers, women self-help groups and doles to unemployed youth and its inefficiency in securing adequate funds from the Centre in the budget, special status to AP and railway zone at Visakhapatnam would also come up for debate in the House and Naidu will face a tough time in facing these issues.
