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YSRCP issues whip to nail defectors
In a strategic move the YSRCP issued a whip to all its MLAs to be present in the House for discussion of the Appropriation Bill in the coming week. This would give a chance for the party to initiate disciplinary action against the eight MLAs, who had left the party and joined TDP.
Hyderabad: In a strategic move the YSRCP issued a whip to all its MLAs to be present in the House for discussion of the Appropriation Bill in the coming week. This would give a chance for the party to initiate disciplinary action against the eight MLAs, who had left the party and joined TDP.
The development comes a week after the lone opposition was outwitted by the ruling Telugu Desam Party on two motions of no-confidence, it moved against the Chandrababu Naidu government and Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao. In a bid to get eight of its MLAs, who jumped over to the TDP, disqualified, the YSRCP on Tuesday issued a one-line whip to all its 67 members in the Assembly saying, “You are requested to be present in the Assembly on March 29 and 30, to participate in the discussion on Appropriation Bill and vote against the Bill.”
The YSRCP had moved a no-confidence motion in the Assembly on March 14 against the 21-month-old TDP government, followed by a similar motion against Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao on March 15. Both the motions were defeated in the 175-member House as the TDP enjoyed a clear majority with 102 members of its own, supported by four BJP and two others.
Leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy openly admitted in the House that the purpose of moving the no-confidence motions was only to issue a whip to his party members with the ultimate objective of getting the eight MLAs who defected to the TDP disqualified. The TDP astutely beat the YSRCP in the game by allowing no time for the latter to at least issue a whip as the motions were immediately taken up for discussion in the House.
