With the announcement of Lok Sabha elections imminent, the government has reconvened the Assembly for a day’s session on Saturday.
A press communique from the Assembly Secretary A. Vincent Rayer said: “The Legislative Assembly will re-assemble on March 2 at 11 a.m.”
Whether it is election year or not, it had become a practice for successive governments to run the administration in the first few months of the financial year with an interim Budget. The vote-on-account is a special provision given to the government to obtain the consent of the legislature to seek expenditure sanction for a few months where the incumbent government could not present a full budget due to elections.The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had come out against the government for not presenting a full budget when neighbouring States had passed a full Budget.
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“The government should have prepared a full Budget. The upcoming election is to elect parliamentarians and not to constitute a legislature,” AIADMK leader A. Anbalagan said.