Unique strategy to tire out opposition

Hyderabad: The government is all set to adopt a new strategy to tire out the opposition parties during the 50-day monsoon session of the Telangana Assembly and Legislative Council.

The government wants to do away with the earlier practice of suspending the members at the slightest provocation.

According to senior TRS leaders, the government wants to prove that while it was ready to discuss every issue in detail and hence was holding the monsoon session for 50 days which is an unprecedented act, it was the opposition which was causing hurdles by creating pandemonium for no reason.

In its bid to counter the opposition parties’ tirade against the government, TRS has asked its 82 legislators to focus on issues like the conspiracy of Congress senior leader and former minister D Sridhar Babu’s conspiracy to fix TRS MLA in drug case during the debates on related issues.

The MLAs have been asked to speak about the developmental activities taken up in their respective assembly constituencies during the last three years. The Chief Minister, sources said, wants to utilise the time for showcasing the welfare measures taken up by the government.

As part of this strategy, the ruling party on Friday did not suspend the Congress MLAs who had resorted to sloganeering and protests during the one-and-a-half hour question time before the House was adjourned for the day.

Since TRS came to power, the government had adopted the policy of suspending the legislators the moment they rushed into the well of the House and resorted to protests. The suspensions sometimes used to be for the entire session as it happened in the case of former TDLP floor leader A Revanth Reddy.

As the opposition party mainly, Congress was going aggressively against the government on the plight of farmers and unemployed youth, the treasury benches strongly feel that the suspension pf Congress members would give more political mileage to the opposition.

In the backdrop of fast-changing political developments, KCR is of the strong view that if the opposition resorts to disrupting the proceedings, people will come to know how the opposition has a single point agenda of disrupting the proceedings and stalling the government from performing its duties.

"The government is keen to expose the ‘hollowness’ of the opposition parties by not suspending the members repeatedly from the House,” a senior minister said.

In the ongoing session, the government would maintain utmost restraint and would agree for discussion on every issue raised by the opposition.

If any leader crosses the ‘Laxmana Rekha’ and stalls the proceedings repeatedly only then the government would consider initiating disciplinary action, a very important TRS minister said.