Bihar's Winter Session begins

Patna: The five-day winter session of the Bihar Assembly began on Friday, with members paying tributes to political leaders, who died earlier this year, and finance minister Sushil Kumar Modi presenting the second supplementary budget for fiscal 2019-20.

Shortly after, Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary adjourned the House till 11 am on Monday. Modi, who is also the deputy chief minister, tabled the second supplementary budget of Rs 12,457.61 crore for 2019-20, of which Rs 5962.11 crore has been earmarked for annual schemes and Rs 6480.42 crore for establishment and committed expenditure.

Prominent among those present on the first day of the winter session were Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, his brother and RJD MLA Tej Pratap Yadav and Congress leader Sadanand Singh.