The monsoon session of Maharashtra Legislature begins in Mumbai today. The three week long monsoon session is likely to be stormy affair for the ruling Congress and NCP government, against the backdrop of Mantralaya fire incident and the ongoing proceedings in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Addressing a press conference after the customary tea party on the eve of session yesterday, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said that seven new proposed bills will be put before the session. The CM said that though some important papers were destroyed in the recent fire at the Mantralaya, it will not affect regular working of both the houses. The Chief Minister also informed that the state government is keeping the track of the matters related with the recent fire incident including, reconstruction of top three floors of secretariat building which were destroyed in the fire, fire audit of the entire secretariat building and recovery of all important data and computer files. Mr. Chavan announced the measures taken for the draught like situation in the state. Meanwhile, the opposition parties refused to attend the customary tea Party on the eve of the session. However, they joined the casual discussion on the core issues with the ruling parties. They said, issues like Adarsh Housing scam proceeding, involvement of critical ministers in some corruption cases, the spate of female foeticides, acute water shortage in 15 districts in the state, alleged irregularities in irrigation projects and farmers' suicides are likely to dominate the monsoon session.