No guts to face no-trust move

​New Delhi/ Amaravati/ Hyderabad: Even as Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan yet again dumped the no-confidence motions moved by TDP, YSRC, Congress and Communist parties on Tuesday, Amaravati, Delhi and Hyderabad buzzed with Opposition activity, all targeting the BJP.

If Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with leaders of political parties and those of the associations and organisations who are active in public life in Amaravati to decide on future course of action, in Hyderabad, KCR is getting ready to move to Delhi to take the BJP by its horns and cobble up a front.

He is expected to leave for Delhi after the Assembly session. Interestingly, Naidu too is planning to visit Delhi on April 2 to muster support from Opposition parties for his agitation for Special Category Status.
KCR wants an anti-BJP and anti-Congress front while Naidu is looking for an anti-BJP coalition.

In Lok Sabha, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan did not take up notices for no-confidence motion moved by the TDP, YSRC, Congress and Left-wing parties on the ground that there was no order in the House and adjourned the House amidst vociferous protests by the members of the three parties.

As soon the House met in the morning, the AIADMK members moved into the well, demanding that Cauvery river management board be constituted immediately.

The Speaker informed the House that she was in receipt of notices but to take them up for discussion, there was no order in the House even as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anant Kumar said that the government was ready for a discussion on the no-confidence motion.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that the ruling party was encouraging din in the House so that the Speaker would not be able to take up th notices for non-confidence motion. He described the din as government-sponsored agitation.

The Congress leader said that to help the Speaker to take the head count of the MPs for taking up the notices, we had carried placards showing that we have the strength of more than 80 members. The government is afraid that it would lose its face it the motion is admitted as several issues not palatable to the government would come up for discussion, he said.

Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee too was in Delhi to rally parties for her brand of front without the Congress, which should come as music to the ears of Chandrasekhar Rao as he has to take the Congress on in Telangana and therefore the question of he saying yes to any front with the Congress as one of its constituents would not arise. The West Bengal firebrand leader conferred with NCP chief Sharad Pawar and leaders of other parties, including TDP, SP, RJD, BJD NC and NDA's Shiv Sena.

According to sources, she feels that if the Congress becomes a part of the opposition front, then many parties like the BJD, TDP and TRS would not join the alliance. She however urged the NCP leaders to seek opinion of the Opposition parties in inclusion of the Congress in the front.

Later, NCP leader Praful Patel, while briefing media on the meeting, said that both the leaders agreed that there should be "maximum unity" among opposition parties to take on the BJP.

Meanwhile, the choice of words of YSRC Rajya Sabha member V Vijayasai Reddy while attacking Chandrababu Naidu outside Parliament drew flak from several parties. Even BJP leader S Vishnuvardhan Reddy slammed Vijayasai Reddy for his choice of words and advised him that even to abuse someone, one has to use decent words.

Vijayasai Reddy, taking exception to Naidu comparing him to Vijay Mallya, said that he had not taken one rupee from any bank and yet Naidu chose to describe him as yet another Mallya and used some objectionable words to tarnish Naidu's image.

Not to be out done, the TDP leaders hit back at Vijayasai Reddy saying that YSRC's agitation for Special Category Status was a sham since Vijayasai Reddy had touched the feet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he met him in Parliament which alone shows how much close and emotionally integrated he was with the BJP.