Chennai, Sep 13 (UNI) The three-day brief session of
the Tamil Nadu Assembly beginning here tomorrow was
expected to be stormy, with the Opposition DMK all set
to corner the ruling AIADMK on a host of issues, including
the death of four NEET aspirants in the State in the last
few days.
The session would be held at the sprawling and spacious
Kalaivanar Arangam to ensure physical distancing norms
among the MLAs in view of the COVID-19 pandemic as
there was space crunch in the present Assembly hall at
Fort St George.
Ahead of the session, all the MLAs, including Chief Minister
Edappadi K Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam,
Speaker P Dhanapal, Assembly officials, officers and journalists
were subjected to corona tests and returned negative, except
for two officials.
Mr Dhanapal said said condolence resolutions would be adopted
mourning the deaths of former President Pranab Mukherjee, DMK
MLA J Anbazhagan, Congress MP H Vasanthakumar and those
who died of coronavirus on the first day tomorrow.
The House would also condole the deaths of 21 former legislators
who had died since the previous Assembly session after which the
House would be adjourned for the day.
The session would begin with Question Hour on the next two days
and the first supplementary budget would be tabled in the House
on September 16.
The principal opposition DMK was set to raise a host of issues
including, demanding a resolution seeking to scrap the NEET
exams in the state in the wake of four students ending their
lives in the last five days, including three on Saturday alone,
due to fear over clearing the NEET exams, the National Education
Policy-2020 and the Centre's move to impose three-language policy
in the State, corona situation, among others.
The DMK would also raise the alleged irregularities in the
PM-Kisan scheme, which came to light in several districts,
apart from the alleged failure of the government in handling
the corona pandemic and the fresh privilege notices issued
to DMK President and Opposition Leader M K Stalin and 17 of
his party MLAs for displaying banned gutkha products in the
House in July 2017.
Though Mr Stalin and other MLAs had filed writ pleas in the
Madras High Court, the issue was expected to generate more
heat in the House, apart from the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Stalin had been consistently alleging that there were
irregularities in procuring items for treating corona
patients and also accused the government of failing on
all fronts in dealing with the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Kalaivanar Arangam on the Wallajah Road came
under tight security in view of the Assembly session with
the deployment of a large number of police personnel.
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