‘Two Ministers contested 2002 polls on Rs 1 Cr Pak money’

Delhi hawala operator makes sensational disclosures; woman arrested

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Apr 13: If a Delhi-based property dealer, who has been arrested by Srinagar Police as a ‘hawala operator’, is to be believed, two Ministers of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s Council of Ministers had contested the 2002 Assembly after receiving Rs 50 Lakh each from Pakistan. A prominent political family in Srinagar is in for a trouble if the ‘sensational disclosures’ made by the detainee turned out to be true.

Police officials refused to make comment but Early Times learned from reliable authoritative sources that Srinagar Police has arrested one Hira Lal of Delhi when it had laid a trap to catch some fake currency operatives red-handed. During sustained interrogation, Hira Lal identified himself as a resident of Tatesar village in Delhi outskirts and claimed to be a property dealer.

When sleuths conducted verification of Hira Lal’s statement, he turned out to be the confidante of a slain separatist leader. His disclosures also led to the arrest of a woman, namely Hajira Banoo of Lolab, Kupwara, who was also suspected to be part of the fake currency racket and subjected to sustained interrogation.

According to informed sources, Hira Lal disclosed that two particular businessmen-turned-politicians had contested 2002 Assembly elections after receiving Rs 50 Lakh each through him from Pakistan. Both the Independent candidates, who successfully contested their maiden elections from Handwara and Habbakadal respectively, were later inducted as Ministers by then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Dogged by controversies, one of these politicians later landed in the infamous Srinagar Sex Scandal after he was dropped by Mufti’s successor Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. He was arrested and released on bail after several months of imprisonment. While as CBI conducted raids on his Srinagar residence, Income Tax sleuths raided his Green Belt house in Jammu while investigating his earnings in a pharmaceutical company.

According to sources, Hira Lal has revealed that he had come into the contact of a separatist leader and a Srinagar-based businessman hailing from Handwara in early 1990s when he sold a property to the politician in Delhi. When he demanded the outstanding amount, the politician asked him to contact one ‘commander Bilal Rahi’ in Islamanad who owed him some money and would manage to send it to the Delhi-based property dealer.

Hira Lal has claimed that he received an amount of over Rs 5 Crore from the channel in Pakistan and later passed it over to the Srinagar-based businessman who, according to him, delivered the money on the politician’s family. He has claimed that the politician’s sons later spent the same money on acquiring land and houses at Punjab Khour village, Chermud village and Greater Kailash in Delhi besides a house in Srinagar. He has revealed that, as advised by the Srinagar-based businessman, he contacted a former J&K Chief Engineer’s family in Gurgaon and later transferred his house through a gift deed to one of the politician’s sons after deducting a part of a money consignment that was handed over to the seller.

Even as Police declined to either confirm or contradict Hira Lal’s arrest and his sensational disclosures, informed sources maintained that the detainee’s statement was being verified in close coordination with Delhi Police.

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Maulana killed for proximity to JKLF, meeting with interlocutors?

Police suspecting Jameel-ur-Rehman’s Saut-ul-Haq for cleric’s assassination

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Apr 12: Government has constituted a Special Investigating Team (SIT), headed by SDPO Kothibagh Abdul Jabbar, to identify and apprehend the killers of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith chief, Maulana Shaukat Ahmed Shah. Even as Police are still groping in the dark, the “moderate” cleric’s proximity to JKLF Chairman, Yasin Malik---that had remarkably grown in the last two years--- besides the former’s two secret meetings with the Government of India’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi, are believed to have caused the assassination here on April 8^th.

Ballistic analysis of the substances, according to informed sources, has not led Police to any clues with regard to identity of the killers, their organisation or objective. According to these sources, the SIT headed by the young IPS officer, was almost certain that the IED blast on Friday last had been caused by an “insider” with the help of his mobile phone. All incoming and outgoing calls, handled by towers of different telecommunication companies in Maisuma and adjoining areas between 1100 hrs and 1400 hrs on the fateful day, are currently under scanner.

Officials of extensive counter-insurgency exposure in Srinagar are hopeful of a breakthrough in next one week. Sources said that the investigators were working on a host of theories, including the Maulana-led outfit’s hostility with two radical organizations over his proximity to JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik, and Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith’s in-house factional feud.

Officials are also attempting to know whether the slain cleric’s two secret meetings with the interlocutors in New Delhi earlier this year had become any reason behind his assassination. Interlocutors Daleep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari had interacted twice with the cleric in New Delhi to get a first-hand account of his “moderate ideology” on the Kashmir problem, well-placed authoritative sources disclosed to Early Times.

None of the prominent separatist leaders has publicly met with the team of interlocutors ever since it was constituted by the union Home Ministry over Prime Minister’s advice in October 2010. Most of the separatist leaders have laid preconditions like declaring J&K as a “disputed territory”, releasing of all political detainees and relocation of troops---something not acceptable to New Delhi at this stage.

Based on “rough findings” of an investigation into a grenade attack on Maulana’s residence at Lal Bazar in 2008, Police officials are understood to be scanning the activities of a radical group of militants. Militants had thrown red colour and scribbled “Saut-ul-Haq” on the floor before lobbing the grenade on Maulana’s house three years back. The breakaway group’s head, Jameel-ur-Rehman, who is  a resident of Pulwama district, according to officials, was based in Karachi, Pakistan, for the last over three years.

Meanwhile, Jamiat’s officiating Chairman, Ghulam Rasool Malik, has organized an “all-party meeting” at the organisation’s headquarters here on Wednesday. All the separatist leaders, including heads of both factions of Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik, and heads of almost all the religious organizations have been invited for participation. The meeting would pay tributes to the slain cleric and discuss security related issues concerning the religious leadership in Kashmir.

On the host’s request, Government has made elaborate security arrangements for the meeting that would be followed by a news conference.

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Men who shouted for Azadi, attacked cop were from NC

CM orders release of Bar chief, declines to relent on the ‘enemies within’

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

JAMMU, Apr 11: A group of lathi-wielding youth, who shouted for Azadi and attacked a Constable of Jammu & Kashmir Police ruthlessly on Srinagar-Baramulla last year, have turned out to be sons of the members of ruling National Conference (NC). Even as a senior NC leader and Minister applied maximum possible pressure for the release of the cop-attackers, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has made it clear that he would release detainees of Hurriyat and PDP but not the “enemies within”.

Authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that men in the violent mob, who acted on the separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s call of “Sopore Chalo” on June 28^th, 2010, and attacked a Constable of J&K Police near Hokersar Wetland Reserve, have turned out to be members of the ruling NC. Almost all of the accused have surfaced as residents of Zainakadal and other downtown localities who came from the NC families.

The key accused in FIR No: 159 of 2010, booked by Police Station Parimpora, Umar Hamid Hanga, has turned out to be the son of a senior NC activist and right hand man of a Cabinet Minister. The Minister’s Azadi shouting followers had attacked the Constable within 24 hours of the Minister’s publicly made charge that the Indian paramilitary CRPF was an “unbridled force” in Kashmir.

Highly placed sources in the state Home Department said that the Minister had applied “maximum possible pressure” to get the accused released but Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who also happens to be the Minister incharge Home, had declined to relent on the “enemies within”.

Sources said that Police had arrested as many as 29 persons on the charges of attacking the Police constable and resorting to violence with an anti-national agenda in case FOR No: 159 of 2010. Six of the key accused, namely Umar Hamid Hanga S/o Abdul Hamid Hanga R/o Zainakadal, Murtaza Manzoor Panzoo S/o Manzoor Ahmed Panzoo R/o Maharaj Gunj, Farooq Ahmed Mir S/o Ghulam Mohammad Mir R/o Parimpora, Muzaffar Jan Itoo S/o Mohammad Yousuf Itoo R/o Safakadal, Shariq Lateef Bhat S/o Mohammad Lateef Bhat R/o Mustafa Abad Zainakot and Mohammad Maqbool Sofi S/o Mohammad Abdullah Sofi R/o Soura, have been detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) and detained at different jails in Jammu.

These sources said that Srinagar District Police had completed its investigation and a challan was being produced separately in a court of law against the arsonists, who nearly killed a Constable, but some of the key accused had been detained under PSA to prevent move of the defence to get them released.

In its exhaustive dossier, Police had attached explicit video clips of the attack on the Constable besides call detail records of the accused as well as their tower locations at the time of the incident. Sources said that in view of strong material evidence against the accused, Chief Minister refused to relent and desired that the investigation be completed and the trial conducted in a routine court of law.

Interestingly, a number of NC’s politicians, including Ministers, have been holding the separatist Hurriyat Conference and the mainstream opposition party, PDP, responsible for staging last year’s street turbulence and violent demonstrations.

Officials had no hesitation in sharing details of the ruling party activists’ involvement in the incidents of arson and separatist demonstrations but they sought to make it clear that there was no organizational support to these urchins. They refused to be on record with the argument that they were not authorized to speak to media.

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Whips that won’t be cracked on defaulters in Jammu

NC, Congress, PDP worried over infidelity of ‘alienated’ MLAs

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

JAMMU, Apr 4: The anti-defection law in practice in Jammu & Kashmir makes all MLAs bound to vote in accordance with the directions of their respective party whips in the elections for Legislative Council. However, the parties have no legal mechanism to ascertain whether a voter has gone by direction of the whip or contrary to it. In other words, any MLA belonging to any political party would be bound to vote for the choice of his or her party but at the same time free to practice it according to his personal choice and commitment. This difference in conducting of elections for the Upper House of the Parliament and Upper House of the State Legislature keeps Jammu & Kashmir open to horse trading on at least one unreserved seat in Jammu division in the Legislative Council elections on April 13^th.

Chief Whips of National Conference (Mubarak Gul), Congress (Ghulam Ahmed Mir), PDP (Abdul Gaffar Sofi), BJP (Ashok Khajuria) and National Panthers Party (Balwant Singh Mankotia) would obviously direct members of their respective political parties to vote for the choice of the party. But, till date, there is no instrument in Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Representation Act of 1957 to find whether a particular MLA has obeyed the direction of his or her party whip or not.

“If shown to anybody, including a chief whip or an authorized polling agent, the ballot would become invalid”, Chief Electoral Officer and Principal Secretary Home, B R Sharma, clarified to Early Times. He said that the elections for Legislative Council of Jammu & Kashmir were being held under the procedure laid down in J&K Peoples Representation Act of 1957 that had no provision of open voting. On the other hand, elections of Rajya Sabha members and President of India were being held throughout the India, including in the special status state of Jammu & Kashmir, under the central Peoples Representation Act of 1951, that makes members of the electoral colleges bound to vote in open in accordance with the whips of their respective parties.

The provision of secret ballot was replaced by the provision of open ballot for Rajya Sabha and Presidential elections by way of an amendment in the central act when horse trading among MLAs and Lok Sabha members became a subject of national concern in the last 10 years. Owners and nominees of major corporate houses were known for “buying” the votes for huge amounts of money. An amendment in the Central law was finally introduced and adopted by the Parliament when Law Commission as well as Supreme Court of India asserted that members of the central electoral colleges could not assert their personal choice or commitment in the matter of electing members of Rajya Sabha and President of India. Under this law, MLAs of different political parties were asked by respective party whips to vote in open in the Rajya Sabha elections of 2009 when MPs, including the NC supremo Dr Farooq Abdullah, were elected.

This did not apply to election of MLCs that were held around the same time in 2009 under J&K Peoples Representation Act of 1957. Since the state Act has not been amended and brought at par with the central Act in the last two years, yet again the elections to fill up six vacancies in Legislative Council are being held with secret ballot.

Returning Officer and Secretary of Legislative Council, Mohammad Ramzan, told Early Times that in case a party whip established that a particular MLA of his party had gone in violation of the party direction, the defaulter would be subject to disqualification as MLA. However, he too elaborated that there was no legal or scientific system in vogue to find whether the member had observed the direction of his or her party whip in affirmation or breach.

With the prospects of a close contest between the ruling coalition and the possible PDP-NPP combine brightening up on one unreserved seat in Jammu, all the three major political parties are currently reframing their strategies. Notwithstanding factional warfare, little possible of cross-voting is existing in Congress. NPP is said to be divided in 2:1. However, arch rivals, NC and PDP, are both worried over disenchantment of at least six MLAs in each party. Criss-cross vibrations were palpable during the lately concluded budget session of the state Assembly.

Political sources revealed that the strategists in both the parties were currently toying with the idea of seeking oath on holy scriptures from respective MLAs of their parties to ensure that their votes did not cross the floor. But, at the same time, NPP as well as BJP were not in favour of “extra-constitutional measures” like forcing the MLAs to take oath of allegiance to the party.

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KAS officer allots shop to wife in Jammu

CM’s year against corruption begins with a breach in Jammu Wakf

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

JAMMU, Apr 2: A middle rung officer of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) has created history by getting a commercial property of Auqaf-e-Islamia Jammu (AIJ) allotted to his wife in total violation of norms. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jammu & Kashmir State Wakf Council (SWC), Javed Iqbal Balwan, who is also functioning as Special Officer of Auqaf in Jammu & Kashmir, has later confirmed the allotment of the shop at Talab Khatikan in favour of his better-half, Chaman Ara, without any fear of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s declaration of 2011 as the “year against corruption”.

Months after an Executive Officer of a Municipal Committee in Baramulla district has recruited his own wife on a substantive post in an unprecedented violation of rules and norms, CEO of SWC, Javed Iqbal Balwan, with endorsement of other members and Chairman, has confirmed allotment of a Wakf property in favour of his own wife, Chaman Ara. Documents in possession of Early Times are clear that there was a word of recommendation from Minister incharge Haj and Auqaf and Chairman of SWC but a formal allotment under rules, that required the Council’s confirmation, was never issued.

Administrator AIJ, Raj Mohammad Malik, and CEO of SWC and Special Officer of Auqaf, J&K, Javed Iqbal Balwan, still incorporated confirmation of an “allotment” in favour of Chaman Ara in the agenda of SWC’s 11^th meeting that took place at Engineering Meeting Hall, Gandhi Nagar, on January 27^th, 2011. “The Council also confirmed the allotment of shop No: 09 situated at Talab Khatikan, Jammu, in favour of Smt Chaman Ara”, minutes of the meeting read.

While as CEO Javed Balwan happens to be the member-secretary of SWC, others who attended the meeting as members included Secretary Revenue, Ejaz Iqbal, Mufti Mohammad Bashiruddin, retired Secretary to Government, A G Shahbaz, DC Rajouri, G A Khwaja, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s brother, Ghulam Mustafa Bhat, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary Advocate Shah Mohammad Chowdhary, MLC of National Conference, Mohammad Yousuf Taing, MLC of Congress Ali Mohammad Bhat, MLA of Congress Abdul Majeed Wani, A R Hanjura, Abdul Majeed Khateeb and Pir Bashir Ahmed Muttawali of Aasaar-e-Sharief Pinjora, Shopian. Minister incharge Haj and Auqaf presided over the Meeting as Chairman of SWC.

Jammu Wakf had got a building constructed by Jammu Municipal Corporation for the purpose of rehabilitating house owners and shopkeepers whose properties were to be demolished for expansion and beautification plan of Masjid Khatikaan and widening of a road from Taj Hotel to DC office. Like all other properties, including newly constructed Haj House at Rail Head, all the shops were supposed to be put to general auction and allotted subsequently on payment of the premium on lease. However, the property at Khatikan was neither advertised for competitive bids like Haj House shops nor put to auction. Insiders insist that almost all the shops were clandestinely allotted to favourites.

 Records are clear that Smt Chaman Ara was not owner of any property under alignment of the expansion. According to informed sources, as soon as her husband was posted as CEO and Special Officer of Auqaf, she submitted an application for allotment of a shop at Khatikan to the Chairman/ MoS Haj & Auqaf who, as per a routine, recommended her case to Administrator. Even before a premium was fixed and a tentative allotment was issued, her husband literally used his good offices and succeeded in getting the “allotment” confirmed. He was present in the meeting as Member-Secretary of SWC, the highest decision making body.

Even as Minister incharge Haj & Auqaf, Aijaz Ahmed Khan, was not reachable on telephone, Mr Javed Iqbal Balwan confirmed that Chaman Ara was his wife and a shop had been allotted to her with “subsequent confirmation” of SWC during his tenure as CEO of SWC and Special Officer of Auqaf. He said that all participants of the meeting were aware of the fact that his wife was an applicant and contender for allotment of shop No: 09 at Khatikaan Talab. He, however, clarified that the lease deed was yet to be executed by the competent authority (Commissioner-Secretary Revenue Ejaz Iqabl) though premium of Rs 1.00 Lakh had been fixed for it and other adjoining shops.

Mr Balwan admitted that Chaman Ara was not one among the people affected by the expansion plan but claimed that the shop was allotted to her after all the applicants were rehabilitated. However, Early Times learned that several representations in objection of the applicants were summarily dismissed by the SWC meeting and the “allotments” were confirmed. “State Wakf Council is the supreme authority whose decisions can not be challenged even in court. It has confirmed the allotment and it is valid”, Mr Balwan said in defence of the SWC action in favour of his wife.

Administrator of AIJ, Raj Mohammad Malik, said that none of the participants objected to the allotment. “I personally wanted members to object ton it but none of them did”, Mr Malik said. He sought to, however, make it clear that SWC had “confirmed the allotment” and the premium of Rs 1.00 Lakh had also been fixed but the possession was yet to be given to CEO’s wife. He said that all other properties had been properly put to general auction and premium of upto Rs 17 Lakh stood offered for each shop at Haj House. Residents at Khatikaan said that anyone of them was ready to deposit premium of Rs 5 to 7 Lakh for the shop allotted to CEO’s wife for just Rs 1.00 Lakh.

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SHRC rendered dysfunctional in Omar Govt

Commission working without 2 members, IGP, other staff

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

JAMMU, Apr 1: During Omar Abdullah-led coalition government, fate of the much hyped Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is just a little different than other fully dysfunctional autonomous bodies---J&K State Accountability Commission, J&K State Information Commission et al. Government has announced formation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission in March and constituted J&K State Vigilance Commission in February this year but neither of the two has been provided staff and other logistics.

While three successive Chairmen’s repeated requests to provide an IGP rank officer for supervising investigation have fallen on deaf ears of successive governments, strength of the commission reduced to just a Chairman and one-odd member.

In the annual report for 2009-10, Omar Abdullah government first year, Chairman SHRC, Syed Bashiruddin, has lamented that the conditions that forced former Chairman, Justice Rtd Ali Mohammad Mir, to resign during Mufti Mohammad’s government, were still existing. The report was tabled in the Legislative Assembly today.

“The Commission has worked and is working with depleted strength of two during the period under report (2009-10). The often repeated requests, DO’s/ SOs for appointment of Commission members have yielded so far no results”, Mr Justice Rtd Syed Bashiruddin has recorded in the introduction. He has pointed out that only the Chairman and one member functioned at SHRC during 2009-10 as two members, namely Habibullah Bhat and B N Tingloo, retired.

Sources in the government, however, insisted that one vacancy of member was likely to be filled up in a month. They disputed the official version and asserted that Chairman Syed Bashiruddin and Member, A R Khan, had got the third member, namely Javed Ahmed Kawoosa, two months before the annual report was tabled in Assembly. They said that the government was also in search of the 4^th member for the SHRC.

Government is supposed to provide a Police team, headed by an IGP, for the purpose of investigation to the SHRC. “However, the investigating team has been without the services of an Inspector General of Police throughout the period (2009-10). No IGP is posted in the Commission. Even the Police personnel, to be part investigative staff is not posted in full strength”, Chairman has complained.

With identical complaints, besides no-action on annual reports and recommendations of the Commission by the state government, then Chairman SHRC, Justice Rtd Ali Mohammad Mir, had resigned in 2005.

In the report on 2009-10, Chairman SHRC has further recorded: “The Commission has also reviewed the depleted staff strength and difficulties faced thereto in the meetings of the Commission and in the meetings at various levels with Law Department and other officials, followed by that matter, being appropriately taken up with Government”.

“The Commission has faced difficulties in discharge of its duties and for the purpose, the Commission’s Chairperson took up the matter with His Excellency the Governor of J&K State during Governor’s rule and thereafter with the elected government by addressing DOs to Chief Minister and Law Minister and other concerned dignitaries and authorities of the State Government, thereby inter alia, the amendments have been proposed to J&K Protection of Human Rights Act, 1999, and need-based requirements qua infrastructure, staff, finances, logistics etc have been pinpointed to be met. These have been taken up appropriately with the Government via reports, DOs and other communications. Same are pending with the Government. No decisions to the knowledge of Commission have been taken thereto during the period under report”, it added.

Nevertheless, there has been remarkable decrease in matters of human rights abuse by the government agencies. During 2009-10, SHRC has received 467 complaints of which 249 were addressed.

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Cabinet writes off deceased Ministers’, MLAs’, MLCs’ loans

Pir gets charge of CCT; 3 IAS officers given suppertime scale

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

JAMMU, Mar 31: In a significant development, Cabinet today waived off all outstanding loans of a number of Ministers and legislators who have passed away in the last two decades. While as three IAS officers were promoted to suppertime scale, Commissioner Excise G A Pir was also given additional charge of Commissioner Commercial Taxes at the end of the re-employment period of Khwaja Bashir Ahmed.

On recommendations of Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Government today ordered immediate attachment of Principal Secretary Health & Medical Education, Dr Ravi Kulbhushan Jeerath. A Government Order, circulated in Assembly, said that Jeerath had been attached to General Administration Department with immediate effect. Principal Secretary Housing & Urban Development, Suresh Kumar, would hold the additional charge of Principal Secretary Health and Medical Education.

As already reported, Jeerath had been censured by Privilege Committee of J&K Assembly and recommended for attachment after he was declared as guilty of showing disrespect to BJP’s MLA from Banni, Lal Chand. Under pressure from a near-unanimous House, Government today removed Jeerath from his posting and ordered his attachment to GAD hours before the Cabinet met with a brief agenda at Civil Secretariat in the evening.

In today’s meeting, Cabinet decided that Commissioner Excise, G A Pir, would also hold additional charge of Commissioner Commercial Taxes till further orders. It accorded sanction to promotion of three senior IAS officers, namely Yadullah (Secretary Rural Development), Aijaz Iqbal (Secretary Revenue) and Farooq Ahmed Pir (Secretary Labour and Employment).

Elevated to the post of Commissioner-Secretary, all the three IAS officers were promoted to super time scale of Rs  37400-67000 with Grade pay Rs. 10,000. They would continue to hold the existing postings.

Two days after J&K Legislative Assembly raised salaries of Ministers, MLAs and MLCs, besides pension of retired legislators, with retrospective effect of nearly two years, Cabinet today sanctioned waiver of loans granted to a number of former Ministers, MLAs and MLCs who died natural death or were killed by militants in the last 20 years. Families of slain Ministers Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, Safdar Ali Beg, Dr Ghulam Nabi Lone, slain Parliamentary Secretary Ghulam Hassan Bhat, besides those of several MLAs and MLCs, including slain counter-insurgents Kukka Parray and Javed Hussain Shah, would be among the beneficiaries.

The Cabinet also approved re-employment of retired officers and officials in the election department for assisting in the conduct of Panchayat Elections.

The Cabinet also approved re-employment of Mr M L Babu, Professor in the department of Surgery, Government Medical College, Jammu. It also approved purchase of 20,000 single phase, whole current LCD Static Energy Meters with Optic Port 5-30 Amperes, 1.30 Lakh meters of single phase whole current LCD Static Energy Meters with optical port 10-60 Amperes and 20,000 three phase four wire whole current fully statics Tri-vector energy meters LCD with optical port rating 20-80 Ampere.

Sources said that the Cabinet also approved the draft of some Bills likely to be introduced on last day of the Budget Session tomorrow in Legislative Assembly and subsequently in Legislative Council.

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