The Uttarakhand assembly would hold a one day special session on Tuesday to discuss and pass the 126th amendment act of the constitution which seeks to extend the benefit of reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas for a period of further 10 years. This one day special session of the assembly would in continuation of the winter session of assembly which was adjourned last month.

 On Monday, a meeting of the business advisory committee of the house was held at the office of the speaker Prem Chand Agarwal. The meeting was attended by the parliamentary affairs minister Madan Kaushik, leader of opposition (LoP), Indira Hridayesh, MLAs Pritam Singh, Govind Singh Kunjwal and Khajan Das.

The speaker Agarwal told media persons after the meeting that bill for amendment in the article 334 that provides reservation for the SC and ST candidates in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas would be tabled in the assembly. He said that a time period of two hours has been allotted for discussion on the bill.

The speaker informed that the constitution amendment bill for extension of reservation is needed to pass by at least 50 percent of the Vidhan Sabhas of the country and for this purpose the Uttarakhand assembly is convened.  Agarwal added that the one day session would also have question hour and zero hour. He said that 831 questions were received by the Vidhan Sabha secretariat for the winter session and the remaining questions would be taken up during the question hour. He claimed that all preparations have been made for the one day session. The officiating parliamentary affairs minister and government spokesperson Madan Kaushik said that the questions related with the departments headed by cabinet minister Yashpal Arya and Satpal Maharaj would be taken up during the question hour.