PANAJI: Opposition Leader Chandrakant (Babu) Kavlekar on Friday said that the Congress will demand an extension of the 3-day session of the Goa legislative assembly convened on January 29, 30 and 31 to at least 10 days.
Addressing the media after a Congress legislature party meeting, Kavlekar said he would place the demand before the Business Advisory Committee which will be convened soon to finalise the detailed agenda of the session.
"The session is only for three days and we will get the opportunity to table questions only for two. It appears the session is being held only for name-sake," Kavlekar said, accusing the government of running away from being held accountable for its non-performance.
Flanked by GPCC president, Girish Chodankar and MLAs Nilkanth Halarnkar and Francis Silveira, the Opposition Leader also censured the government for holding sessions of the Assembly for only 16 working days for the whole of 2018 year.
Halarnkar said, the national forum of Presiding Officers (Speakers) has stipulated that Houses with a strength of 40 members should sit for at least 30 working days in a year.
