For the first time in six decades, the winter session of Maharashtra Legislature will take place in Mumbai and not in Nagpur in view of a possibility of a second wave of coronavirus pandemic.

The winter session will start on December 7 in Mumbai. The decision was taken at the Business Advisory Committee meeting held at the Vidhan Bhavan. The tenure of the session will be decided by November end.

The opposition has demanded that the government that the budget session should be held in Nagpur.

Holding the winter session in Nagpur requires a lot of logistics and hundreds of officials have to travel to the orange city along with the documents before the commencement of the session.

It has been the practice since the Maharashtra state was formed in 1960 to hold the winter session in Nagpur which was earlier the capital of the Central Provinces and Berar. Nagpur was merged with Maharashtra.

BJP demanded that the tenure of the winter session should be a minimum of 15 days.

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