Diggy chalking out a strategy to fix TDP BJP combine

​New Delhi: AICC General Secretary and APCC incharge Digvijay Singh and chairman of the Scheduled Caste Cell of the party Koppula Raju are busy chalking out the party’s strategy to fix the TDP-BJP combine during the voting on the private member’s bill moved by the Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao.

Rao moved the private member's bill last week and refused to withdraw the same despite the repeated appeals by the Cabinet Ministers in Rajya Sabha. He became even more insistent when TDP MP C M Ramesh intervened to say that there was no quorum in the House to take up a division as being insisted up on by Rao.

The Congress MP said that he would seek the division at the next opportunity and hence the debate on the same is still pending in the House.

Sources disclosed that AICC Vice President Rahul Gandhi is particular that the Congress corner the TDP-BJP combine in this regard as either voting against the Bill or remaining absent during the voting would send wrong signals to people in AP.

The APCC meanwhile has been asked to encash upon the opportunity in store for them to lower its trust deficit in the eyes of the AP people.

Sources say the party would approach the Left parties too in this regard to seek their support if and when a division is pressed for in the Rajya Sabha. The MPs are also in "touch" with the other anti-BJP parties in the House in this context.

The TDPP members already took stock of the dicey situation arising out of the Congress move in the Rajya Sabha at the residence of the Union Minister of State for Science and Technololgy, Y S Chowdary earlier this week.

They are awaiting the directive of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, to plan their strategy. All along, however, they have been raising the issue of Special Status in the Parliament.