Decks cleared for Assembly session
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 31:
The third session of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly will be opened at 11 am tomorrow with the customary address by Governor Dr SS Sidhu.
The session will be adjourned on February 5 after which it will be reconvened on February 20 to discuss and pass the full budget of 2008-09 .
Just after the Governor occupies the address house, the Business Advisory Committee will table its report.
This will be followed by production of a Bill by the Government.
On February 4 and 5, private member resolutions may be moved and the Governor's address will be discussed on these days.
There will be not sitting on February 2 and 3 .
Meanwhile, with the arrival of MPCC president Gaikhangam at Imphal today, the dissident MLAs had another joint meeting today during which they discussed their next political strategy to remove O Ibobi from the post of Chief Ministership.
Even as the dissident MLAs maintained that it would be immature to divulge the proceedings of the meeting, a reliable source disclosed that their demand to replace O Ibobi with another MLA as Chief Minister may be effected by second week of February.