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Congress dares TDP-BJP combine to bring KVP’s Bill for voting
The APCC here on Monday dared the ruling TDP-BJP combine to bring the Private Member Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha by Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao for voting on August 5. The Congress said it would ensure that the Bill is passed in Parliament.
Vijayawada: The APCC here on Monday dared the ruling TDP-BJP combine to bring the Private Member Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha by Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao for voting on August 5. The Congress said it would ensure that the Bill is passed in Parliament.
APCC president, N Raghuveera Reddy, while addressing a meeting, on special category status organised by the Youth Congress, said that the ruling TDP-BJP combine was betraying the people on their election promises. He said that the Bill tabled by KVP has cornered the two parties.
Stating that the Congress had secured the support of 11 parties in Parliament to support the Bill, he wanted the TDP-BJP to bring the bill for voting. He vowed to ensure that the Bill is passed in the Parliament as AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Vice-president Rahul Gandhi were committed to accord special category status to the State as promised during bifurcation.
“The Parliament had seen 14 Private Member Bills becoming Acts so far and Ramachandra Rao’s Bill would be 15 in that series. It is now the responsibility of the TDP-BJP combine to see that the Bill is made into an Act,” Raghuveera said.
Raghuveera said that the Congress would also prepare people across the State to join the fight to get special category status and other promises made to the State by the Parliament. The party would organise candle-light rally on August 3, sweep the streets and residences of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Union Ministers P Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Y S Chowdary and M Venkaiah Naidu on August 4.
The party would organise a round- table meeting in Delhi on August 5 involving cross section of people to mount pressure on the Centre. He also asked the Chief Minister to be present in Delhi on August 5 when the Private Member Bill is taken up for debate and voting.
The Leader of Opposition in AP Legislative Council, C Ramachandraiah, alleged that Chandrababu Naidu was trying to fool people and said that the Chief Minister had neglected his responsibility of getting the special category status for the State during the last two-and-a-half years in power.
Ramachandraiah also raised objection to the BJP leaders in Delhi terming KVP’s bill as finance bill and said that the Bill was presented two years ago and it was cleared by the Secretariats of Parliament and President after due verification. The Bill was also debated three to four times in Rajya Sabha, he said and wondered how BJP Ministers were now calling it a finance Bill.
