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Monsoon session of Maharashtra legislature begins tomorrow

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Press Trust of India Mumbai

Besides, alleged irregularities in irrigation projects and superseding of the Belgaum Municipal Corporation might also be discussed in the session, being held days after a massive blaze gutted top floors of the state secretariat.

Deficient rainfall has taken a toll on the sowing of kharif crops in the state. This, coupled with reports that there is only nine per cent water supply in state reservoirs has given the opposition ample ammunition to attack the Congress-NCP government.

The Raj Thackeray-led MNS has claimed that the figures about toll collection available with the state government were "bogus" and party workers kept a watch on the toll booths to gauge the exact figures.

 

The issue would be highlighted by MNS legislators, party group leader in the Assembly, Bala Nandgaonkar said.

"Our activists have collected factual information about how many vehicles pass through these toll booths," he said.

By-elections to 11 seats of Maharashtra Legislative Council would be held on July 25. Voting for the July 19 presidential poll would also be held during the session.

A major fallout of the blaze in the mantralaya is that the loss of important files in the fire has made it inconvenient, if not altogether impossible, for bureaucrats to brief ministers in detail on issues to be raised in the state legislature. MORE

  

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First Published: Jul 08 2012 | 1:35 PM IST

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