Lok Sabha begins last session of current term on Thursday

New Delhi,  February 13 :
The Lok Sabha begins a brief but last session in its current term on Thursday for essentially transacting the vote-on-account business but the government is expected to come under attack on a range of issues like terror, "misuse" of CBI.

Being the last session ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, all parties are likely to extract the maximum mileage ahead of the general elections by raising issues like the row in the Election Commission, the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils and the Satyam fraud.

The main opposition BJP has already made it known that it would vociferously raise Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami's recommendation for the sacking of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla on charges of being partisan.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi himself admitted that the session would be a "vibrant" one but dismissed suggestions that the government could face problems in the wake of key outside ally Samajwadi Party turning belligerent.

The SP is targeting Congress, accusing it of using the CBI as a tool against allies and has cited the instances of CPI-M's Pinarai Vijayan of Kerala, SP's Mulayam Singh in UP and BSP's Mayawati.

The session, which will begin with the address of the President to a joint sitting of both the Houses and spread over ten sittings, is essentially for passing the interim Railway and General Budgets.
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