Nagaland Assembly budget session to begin tomorrow

The budget session of Nagaland Assembly will start from tomorrow and continue till March 30, state Assembly officials said.

The session would witness the election of a new Assembly Speaker as Chotisuh Sazo, who was the Speaker, was inducted as a minister for Public Health Engineering by new Chief Minister Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu.

Chief Minister Liezietsu, who also holds the finance portfolio, would present the budget for 2017-18 on March 28, officials said.

The budget session also assumes significance as it would be the last one of the NPF-led DAN government, which is in power since 2003. The Nagaland Assembly elections are due early next year.