Andhra Pradesh Assembly is expected to meet for a brief monsoon session tentatively from August 31. The House will be in session for five working days. The session is going to be a stormy one as the Assembly is meeting after the government received many setbacks in the recent past. The session commences when all the opposition parties are agitating against centre’s apathy towards according special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The TDP government’s soft corner for NDA government is likely create trouble for the ruling party. Similarly, the cash for vote scam, telephone tapping and stampede deaths in Pushkaralu, attempts to dilute the case of Rishiteswari, continued suicides of farmers are all expected to set the House ablaze. Another important issue the opposition likely to raise is the development of capital. So far the government has not released any plan on the development of the new capital. The opposition will use the occasion do demand the government to make public the deals envisaged for the participation of Singapore and Japan companies and the terms of reference. So far the season also is not kind to the Telugu Desam party. Failure of monsoon in several parts of the Andhra Pradesh especially the region of Rayalaseema, which received scanty rainfall, is also expected to come up for debate in the House. Sources in the Assembly said the government will notify the date after chief minster Naidu’s return from Turkey holiday.
