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The first full-fledged budget of the Tamil Nadu Government for 2011-12 will be presented tomorrow by the Finance Minister, Mr O. Panneerselvam, marking the start of a long and possibly stormy session which could see arch rivals AIADMK and DMK lock horns on issues such as Uniform System of School Education (Samacheer Kalvi) and “vendetta politics.”
The Budget comes after the Government’s recent move to revise tax rates to mop up revenue, even as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, had been accusing the previous DMK government of landing the State in a “debt trap,” a charge strongly denied by the DMK.
The first budget of the AIADMK Government is expected to spell out steps to spur revenue generation even as the State is grappling with power cuts. The power crisis had decisively worked against the DMK, with the party and its allies failing to win a single seat in the industrial belt of Coimbatore.
Mr Panneerselvam is expected to come out with solutions to manage the situation. In fact, Ms Jayalalithaa had made a demand for 1,000 MW from the Central grid with during her meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, at New Delhi in June.
The session, which will last more than a month, is likely to be stormy. The DMK, though missing out as the main Opposition party and relegated to third spot, is likely to take on the government on Samacheer Kalvi introduced by them, “vendetta politics and “foisting of land grab cases.”
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