The Budget session of the Tamil Nadu Assembly beginning here tomorrow, was expected to be stormy, with the main Opposition AIADMK all set to raise a host of issues concerning the State.The session would begin with the presentation of the Budget for the year
2025-26 by State Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu, in which he was
expected to unveil some new measures and the policy guidelines of the ruling DMK’s Dravidian model of Governance.
On Saturday, Agriculture Minister MRK Panneerselvam will present the
Agriculture budget, a concept innovated by the DMK regime after it came
to power in 2021, with a view to give due importance to the farming community and improve their standard of living and livelihood.
The duration of the session would be decided at a meeting of the Business
Advisory Committee to be held at Speaker M Appavu’s chamber after the
presentation of the State budget by the Finance Minister.
According to reports, the session was likely to last for more than a month,
during which the debate on the demand for grants for more than 50 departments
would be taken up followed by the concerned Minister’s reply.
The session was expected to be a stormy affair as the Opposition parties
are geared up to raise a host of issues, including then running feud between
the Centre and the ruling DMK over implementation of NEP that envisaged
accepting the three-language formula, the proposed delimitation exercise,
which might result in reduction of number of Lok Sabha seats from the existing 39 to 31, alleged recurring incidents of crimes against women, the prevailing law and order situation and the attack on dalits, including the recent incident in which a youth was hacked in the southern district resulting in his chopping of fingers, though the government doctors stitched together four of them.
Apart from these, other issues concerning the State, were also likely to be raised by the Opposition, which stood on the same page with the DMK government especially on the NEP and the three-language formula.
Even as the Centre insisted on accepting the NEP to implement the three-language policy, the DMK government as also the Opposition parties–barring the BJP–has been opposing it tooth and nail and were speaking in one voice in line with the ruling DMK’s stand that the existing and the long followed two-language formula should continue in
the State.
The DMK has been opposing the NEP as it was aimed at imposing Hindi and Sanskrit by the BJP-led government at the Centre and ruin the state’s educational development, and promote Hindutva ideology.