Jammu, Mar 26: The J&K budget session, after 34-day long recess from February 21 to March 26, 2026, on account of the holy month of Ramadan followed by Eid and Ram Navami festivals, will resume its business tomorrow, March 27, with both the treasury and opposition benches all set to lock horns with fresh issues.
The passage of J&K budget 2026-27 will be the key highlight of the day – the Session will recommence after the recess period. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is also the Finance Minister of J&K, will introduce the Appropriation bills for consideration and passage.
On February 6, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had presented J&K budget 2026-27, with an outlay of Rs 1,13,767 Cr, with capital outlay up by Rs 3000 Cr as compared to the outlay for 2025-26, in the J&K Legislative Assembly, rolling out a slew of “welfare measures” and freebies.
On March 27, the day’s business will, as usual, commence with the Question Hour, following it, the Chief Minister, who is also the incharge Minister for Power Development Department, will lay 4 JKPDCL reports from the year 2016 to 2020.
This will be followed by the motions for elections to three Committees i.e., Committee on Public Accounts; Committee on Estimates and Committee on Public Undertakings, again to be moved by the Chief Minister.
Another significant business of the first day following recess will be the short duration discussion to be initiated by the BJP MLA R S Pathania on “tackling fake news and misinformation in Jammu and Kashmir having serious implications for governance, public accountability, social harmony, cyber security and democratic functioning.”
A call on this short duration discussion was taken during the session prior to recess unanimously by the House. Political hurly burly marked the eve of recommencement of the budget session.
BJP has already announced its “Secretariat Chalo” protest march on March 27 against, what it alleges, “NC government’s apathy towards its demand for establishment of National Law University (NLU) in the Jammu region and “the outsourcing of 24,000 jobs and keeping the whole process in anonymity.”
NC has a lot of ammunition to take on BJP following the recent attempt on the life of its president and former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah. Congress’ strategy revolves around downgrading the security cover of its party leaders and other MLAs besides issues of PoJK refugees to pin down BJP. NC and Congress duel too cannot be ruled out during the proceedings.
PDP, on the eve of resumption of session, highlighted the private member’s bill introduced by its MLA Waheed-ur-Rehman Para proposing administrative reorganization including the creation of new divisions and districts across the Union Territory to corner National Conference and BJP.
However, official sources stated that there was no guarantee that the PDP MLA’s bill could be taken up in this session.
The eve of resumption of the budget session also saw the convening of a cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Sources maintained that the cabinet deliberated on the proposals related to the setting up of a Grid station, Jhelum bridge besides the Appropriation bills and the Private Universities Bill to be taken up in the session. Decisions regarding some transfers and postings too were taken in the cabinet meeting. In the session following recess, two days each have been reserved for Private Members’ resolutions and for Private Members’ Bills. On March 28, 2026, the government business will be conducted.
March 31 and April 2, 2026 have been reserved for Private Members’ Resolutions. The Private Members’ Bills will be taken up on March 30 and April 1, 2026. The session will culminate on April 4 – the day earmarked for Government Business.
