Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will deliver his customary address to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

This is the first session of the House after the government led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay assumed office and won the trust vote.

The Governor’s customary address to the House assumes significance against the backdrop of past instances when former Governor R.N. Ravi and the previous DMK government were at loggerheads over various issues. The then Governor had walked out of the House on several occasions.

According to sources, the new Business Advisory Committee (BAC) has been formed, and its meeting will be convened on Thursday afternoon to decide the duration of the Assembly session.

Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar will be the chairman of the BAC, while Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, Ministers N. Anand, K.A. Sengottaiyan (Leader of the House), R. Nirmalkumar, S. Rajeshkumar, Vanni Arasu, and Chief Government Whip R. Sabarinathan will be members of the committee.

Other members include Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin, E.V. Velu and S.S. Sivasankar of the DMK; Edappadi K. Palaniswami and O.S. Manian of the AIADMK; Sowmiya Anbumani of the PMK; R. Chellaswamy of the CPI(M); T. Ramachandran of the CPI; and Syed Farooq Basha of the IUML.

Currently, the strength of the Assembly stands at 228 following the resignation of the Tiruchi East Assembly segment seat by Mr. Vijay, who retained the Perambur seat, and the resignations of five AIADMK MLAs — Maragatham Kumaravel, P. Sathyabama, S. Jayakumar, Esaki Subaya, and C. Vijayabaskar.