Beginning Thursday, the last sitting of the current state Legislative Assembly is expected to showcase the NDA's strategy, post the Lok Sabha debacle, to outsmart the Opposition on the floor of the house and in the October elections. Populist announcements are on the anvil, to be made over the next few days, including the budget day during the 13-day Monsoon Session that will also provide a buoyant MVA with a platform to attack the government.

Things on the cards are a Madhya Pradesh-like (Ladli Behna yojana) monthly financial assistance scheme for women and other measures that may give the government good traction. Government funding for the ruling alliance MLAs is likely to be increased so more development work in the constituencies.