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(L-R) AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka KC Venugopal, JD National Secretary General Danish Ali, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara during the Congress-JD coordination committee’s meeting, in Bengaluru on Sunday, July 1 2018.[/caption]
Bengaluru, July 1 (PTI): Amid coalition worries, the first full-fledged assembly session in Karnataka after the H D Kumaraswamy led Congress-JD(S) government came to power will begin here tomorrow with Governor Vajubhai Vala addressing the joint session.
This will be for the third time the fifteenth assembly will be meeting after the assembly polls in May, which yielded a fractured verdict with BJP emerging as the single largest party, but falling short of numbers to form the government.
In the first session on May 19, the three-day-old B S Yeddyurappa led BJP government resigned even before taking the floor test with numbers stacked up against it,while the second one on May 25 saw Kumaraswamy winning the vote of confidence.
The session is beginning tomorrow against the backdrop of discordant notes emerging from the Congress and JDS even on the issue of presenting a full-fledged budget and over several ministerial aspirants in both parties failing to make it to the cabinet.
With the five member committee set up by the Congress-JD(S) coordination committee to draft a common minimum programme for the coalition government, ready with its report that includes crop loan waiver, the focus will be now on the budget to be presented on July 5, by Kumaraswamy, who also holds the finance portfolio.
Siddaramaiah, who held the finance portfolio in the previous government, had recently said there was no need for a fresh budget and insisted that a supplementary budget would do.