Bengaluru: Amid coalition worries, the first full-fledged Assembly session in Karnataka after the HD Kumaraswamy led Congress-JD(S) government came to power will begin on Monday 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 19 May, the three-day-old BS Yeddyurappa led BJP government resigned even before taking the floor test with numbers stacked up against it, while the second one on 25 May saw Kumaraswamy winning the vote of confidence.
File image of Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy. AP
File image of Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy. AP
The session is beginning on Monday 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.
On the other hand, the Opposition BJP, which has termed the government as an "unholy alliance", is all set to corner it on a host of issues, including the discord between the coalition partners affecting governance and delay in the implementation of the much-hyped farm loan waiver that JD(S) had promised to implement within 24 hours of coming to power.
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 5 July, by Kumaraswamy, who also holds the finance portfolio.