The six-day budget session of the Maharashtra Legislature will begin on February 25 and is expected to be a heated one as it would be the last before the Lok Sabha elections. It was initially planned for three weeks starting February 18 but had to be curtailed to a six-day affair as the model of code of conduct for the 2019 general polls is expected to come into force by March.

The six-day session will begin with the address of Governor C Vidyasagar Rao to the state Legislature. Supplementary demands will be tabled on February 26 and passed on the same day while the vote-on-account, which will have budget provisions till July 31, will be tabled on February 27. The provisions of the interim budget will be discussed and passed on February 28. The vote-on-account is expected to focus in a major way on agriculture, and a two-day debate on the state's drought situation will also take place on March 1-2. The opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress party will try to the corner the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance on the prevailing drought in the state, farmers' suicides as well as law and order.