Cabinet recommends convening autumn session of Assembly from October 13

Srinagar : The cabinet on Wednesday recommended to the Lieutenant Governor that the Assembly be summoned on October 13.

Sources told the news agency that the cabinet meeting, which began this morning, was chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and attended by all ministers.During the meeting, the cabinet decided to recommend to the LG that the Assembly be convened on October 13.“The session is likely to be brief and may span seven days, from October 13 to 20,” sources disclosed.Kashmir News Observer had exclusively reported on Tuesday that the cabinet would meet on Wednesday morning to decide on holding the autumn session of the J&K Assembly.As per the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, there must not be a gap longer than six months between the last sitting of one session and the first sitting of the next.“The Lieutenant Governor shall, from time to time, summon the Legislative Assembly to meet at such time and place as he thinks fit, but six months shall not intervene between its last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next session,” reads the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019.