TDP, YSRC to push for no-trust again

New Delhi/ Hyderabad: For the second time, the no-confidence motion moved by both the TDP and the YSRC in the Lok Sabha fell by the way side on Monday with the chair adjourning the proceedings, contending that the House was not in order.

Unfazed, the two parties are preparing to move another no-confidence motion on Tuesday hoping that it would be taken up by the Chair for discussion. When the time came for the Speaker to take up the notices for no-confidence motion and verify if they had the support of a minimum of 50 MPs, as has been happening, the AIADMK and the TRS members kept raising slogans in support of their demands.

There is support for no-confidence motion from Congress, Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Samajwadi Party, AIMIM and RJD but there was no way the motion could be taken up with the two South Indian parties creating din.

The Speaker called the members to stand up so that head count could be taken to see how many were supporting it. But with TRS and AIADMK members, holding placards and surrounding the Speaker's podium, Sumitra Mahajan could not take up the motion.

Though Home Minister Rajnath Singh was saying that the government was ready to face the motion, the protest by the members of the two parties continued. The Speaker requested the agitating members to resume their seats saying that unless there was order in the House, she could not take up the notices. 

When her entreaties failed to have any effect on them, she adjourned the House for the day. Telugu Desam Party MP K Rammohan Naidu said they were pressing for no-confidence motion so that they could explain how the government had let down Andhra Pradesh.    

Meanwhile, TDP MPs protested in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in Parliament, demanding Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh. They were joined by Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury. The Rajya Sabha was also adjourned for the day within minutes amid protests by TDP MPs.  

Earlier in the day, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu complimented the MPS for their heroic role in making their voice heard over the din in the Lower House. In a tele-conference with the MPS in the morning, the Chief Minister told them to fight with the same spirit and expose the Centre on how it had betrayed the state.