Chennai, Mar 13 (UNI) 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 Dravidiain 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.

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