Hyderabad: AP Opposition leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy met the Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi at New Delhi on Thursday and asked the poll panel to take over the powers to disqualify defectors, ban political parities failing to fulfil first 10 election promises. He also requested EC to conduct general elections in the GHMC joint capital area and in state of AP at the same day to avoid dual voting.
Mr Reddy after meeting CEC said, “We have given a representation to the Election Commission urging it to take over the powers of disqualifying turncoats immediately as the Speaker due to various obligations, has been unable to disqualify them and democracy is placed at crossroads,”
He added, “The anti-defection law has been bypassed and some loopholes are being exploited by corrupt leaders by taking away MLAs elected from one political party to another and shielding them from the provisions of anti-defection laws.”
