Bengaluru: An eight-day monsoon session of Karnataka legislature will begin today, September 21 amidst the Corona pandemic.
According to the legislature secretariat, both the assembly and the Legislative Council would meet at 11 am.
Safety measures have been stepped up considering that fact that several leaders, including Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa have been tested positive for the infection recently.
As part of preventive measures in the legislature, seats of members are separated by transparent shields. The public will not be allowed entry and the press gallery has been shifted to the second floor.
Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri has made it mandatory for all, including members, officers, staff and journalists, to undergo RT-PCR test for COVID-10, seventy two hours prior to the start of the session.
COVID negative certificate has been made compulsory for entry into both the Houses at the Vidhana Soudha here.
The opposition Congress has already hinted that the session is going to be stormy as it has several issues that hold mirror to the failures of the ruling BJP government at the state.
The opposition is likely to raise the issue of management of pandemic, which has hit 5.11 lakh people in the state alone.
DJ Halli riots, drug scandal, financial condition of the government, flood relief are some of the other issues that will be raked up by the opposition.
The session had to be convened before September 23 in view of the Constitutional provision that the legislature has to meet at least once in six months.
