From today, Vidhan Bhavan will be agog to know the strategies the Opposition will use to corner Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The budget session brings in a wider range of issues and with it come longer working hours. The primary focus of scheduled proceedings may remain on the state's finances, but what wastes time are allegations and counter-allegations that do not necessarily concern the budgeting. Politics overcasts some real issues, because they, even if resolved, do not get members from both sides media and voters' attention.

All guns blazing
This budget session promises to be a stormy one, with all energy of the Opposition vested in demolishing Fadnavis, who is in his fourth year in the CM's office. Opposition parties boycotted a customary tea party that the CM hosts on the eve of the session on Sunday. A letter they have shot off to Fadnavis sounds as if there has been no other political failure as this government has proved to be. It accuses the CM of failing people of all classes and assures him of a befitting fight on the floor of the House. It also accuses him of shielding corrupt ministers and BJP leaders, who have instigated communal riots and insulted a revered historical personality - Chhatrapati Shivaji.