The five days long budget session of Tripura legislative assembly will commence from Friday and the Finance Minister of the state will lay the budget for 2024-25 on the opening day.

As per the decisions of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) budget would be tabled on March 1st after a supplementary grant. The session would remain suspended on March 2nd and 3rd since those are holidays, the next working day of the House would be March 4th and 5th.

After the supplementary grant and budget, then question-hour, BAC report and reference calling will be held on the first day.

In the budget session, a new and important bill will be placed ‘The Tripura Public Demand Recovery Act’, which will be placed for amendment.

After holidays on Saturday and Sunday, the budget session will resume on March 4th and on the same day after private members resolutions, the supplementary grant and bill will be passed. The Budget discussions will be held on March 4th and 5th and after discussion, the budget for financial years 2024-25 will be passed in the session.

While, on Thursday, Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha at his official residence attended a meeting with the BJP legislative team and finalized the strategy of the treasury bench.

During the meeting, speaker Biswabandhu Sen, deputy speaker Ram Prasad Paul, former speaker Ratan Chakraborty, all the ministers including lone MLA and minister of their alliance partner IPFT, Shukla Charan Noatia and all MLA of the party.

Sources said that opposition Tipra-Motha and CPI(M) legislative party leaders had also attended meetings with their party MLAs and opposition parties will raise many burning issues including drug menaces, unemployment etc.