Shimla, Aug. 14 -- The upcoming Monsoon Session of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, beginning August 18, will be the longest in the 14th Assembly and is expected to be dominated by discussions on recurring cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides that cause widespread damage each year, Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania said on Thursday.

Addressing reporters in Shimla, Pathania said the session will have 12 sittings, making it the longest since the ninth Assembly.

"So far, 830 questions have been received -- 679 starred and 151 unstarred. The destruction caused by torrential rains will dominate this session, as most of the questions and notices from both treasury and opposition benches pertain to the devastation in the state," he said.

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