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PANAJI
The four-day session, including the day the Parrikar government won the vote of confidence on Thursday last, will see the Governor’s speech which is expected to outline the government’s policy and political direction. Also, figuring in the session will be the budget presented by Parrikar and the passing of the vote on account.
Besides the election of the speaker, the legislative assembly will also agree on members of the panel of presiding members of the house for the year 2017-18.
In a related development, the office of the speaker has recognised Chandrakant “Babu” Kavlekar as the Leader of Opposition with effect from March 21. The election of the speaker is expected to be a straight fight between the BJP-led coalition government’s nominee Pramod Sawant and the Congress nominee Aleixo Lourenço with Sawant expected to sail through in voting.
