Sivaprasad challenges YSRCP MPs to get resignations accepted

Tirupati: Chittoor MP Dr N Sivaprasad challenged YSRCP MPs to get their resignations accepted with an antedate of May 29 when they last met Lok Sabha Speaker Sumithra Mahajan. 

Terming their resignations as farce, he said that even if they are accepted on June 6 when they are scheduled to meet the Speaker again, by-elections will not come as the tenure of Parliament has come to less than one year by June 4.

“They have scripted their resignation dramas in a planned manner and did not resign when the Budget session of Parliament commenced. Instead, they resigned on the last day and put a big flower on the ears of people,” he remarked. 

Speaking to the media in Tirupati on Tuesday, he said they were misleading people since 2015 when they first said that all of them would resign with the demand for Special Category Status. It was not done even in 2016 which raised doubts in many over their commitment.

By not resigning in 2017 also they kept a small flower on the ears of people. And in 2018 they dragged it on till the end of session and kept a big flower, he said symbolically by keeping flowers in his ears.

“When our Central ministers resigned, their resignations were accepted immediately. When Karnataka MPs resigned also same was the case. But why YSRCP MPs resignations were not accepted. What is going on. What is transpiring between them and Speaker,” he questioned. 

They have been saying that Speaker has given time to think for one more week and come to her again on June 6. By June 4, 2019 Lok Sabha term will come to an end. By June 4, 2018 the Lok Sabha has entered its last one year. 

According to rules if any seat falls vacant before less than one year of the expiry of term, elections will not be held. Hence, even if their resignations are accepted on Wednesday, no elections will come. Knowing this pretty well, they were asking for elections to dupe people, Siva Prasad said.

While Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been working hard for the development of the State, the YSRCP leaders were trying to create obstacles, he said.