YSR Congress serves ‘no trust’ motion against Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker
Hyderabad: The YSR Congress on Thursday served a notice of No-Confidence Motion against AP Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao. The party has also decided to boycott the rest of the Budget Session except for discussion on the No-Trust Motion.
YSRC MLAs led by party chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to complain against the manner in which the Speaker was conducting the proceedings.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy said, “It is shocking that the Speaker gets involved in a debate and refrains the Opposition Leader from talking on a particular subject.”
YSR Congress president and Leader of Opposition Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that the AP Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao was behaving like a Telugu Desam worker and not in a manner that would uphold the dignity of the Chair.
“We take strong objection to the Speaker’s remarks and are moving a no-confidence motion against him. We will also boycott the rest of the Session as the House is not being run on the lines of Parliamentary democracy,” Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
He added, “Whenever I rise to speak, there are intense interruptions by at least four members from the Treasury benches who level baseless allegations and try to provoke the opposition to create pandemonium as the ruling party is scared that the actual facts will be exposed by us, putting the government in a tight spot.
“While I speak on issues of public interest, including farmers’ plight, loan waiver and other such issues, the Chair denies the mike and generously allows members from the Treasury benches to speak, who only level baseless allegations and do not touch the main subject.”
He added, “We met the governor and apprised him of the way the Assembly proceedings were conducted and made it clear that when the voice of opposition is gagged, there is no room to put forth a viewpoint. We have no choice but to move a no-confidence motion.”
Showing the video clipping of his speech in the Assembly, which veered around the loan waiver scheme and the election promises of CM MR Chandrababu Naidu and the Speaker disconnecting the mike, he said, “TDP MLAs are selectively giving video footage to the media.”
The budget session, which was supposed to be for 40 days, has been curtailed to 17 days and the Treasury benches have a single-point agenda of disrupting the proceedings, he said.
Regarding allegations of stealing question papers while in school, Mr Reddy said that they (TD MLAs) should get the facts right about his school and his academic career. He also recalled that he was living in Bengaluru from 1999 to 2009.
