Live
- Time to get rid of Sattavad and Parivarvad politics
- Extend neither spl nor ill treatment
- Must-Watch OTT Originals in 2024: The Year’s Best Shows and Movies
- 40 Indian startups secure over $787 mn in a week
- India now formidable force on chess board
- Raghavendra Mutt pontiff visits Tirumala
- Whistleblower of OpenAI found dead in US apartment
- Trump’s US-first policy & India’s strategic latitude
- Chandrababu pays tribute to Potti Sriramulu and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- India may miss TB elimination target
YSCRP plans to embarrass TDP
The YSRCP Parliamentary Party is reportedly gearing up to embarrass the TDP \"by all means\" in the Parliament to expose its dubious defection policy adopted to lure its MLAs.
- The party MPs are working out strategies to corner the TDP in the monsoon session of Parliament
- Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Sai Reddy issues notice to the Chairman under the Private Member's Bill
- The issue of Special Status to the State to take back seat
New Delhi: The YSRCP Parliamentary Party is reportedly gearing up to embarrass the TDP "by all means" in the Parliament to expose its dubious defection policy adopted to lure its MLAs.
Emboldened by the presence of Vijai Sai Reddy, a confidant of YSRCP chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, in the Rajya Sabha, the party’s MPs are now fine tuning their strategy in consonance with needs of the party.
Though embarrassing the TDP on the issue of the special status to AP is still on cards, the party now plans to highlight the “trap” laid by the TDP for its MLAs luring them with "monetary inducements" to weaken the Opposition.
According to the MPs, party chief Jaganmohan Reddy now wants his MPs to concentrate on the issue more than other issues. This is the reason behind Vijay Sai Reddy issuing notice to the Chairman on his Private Member's Bill to raise the issue of defections, they said.
There is already one such bill pending in the Rajya Sabha for discussion, and it is moved by the Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao. The YSRCP would like to draw the attention of the House and the nation eventually to the ugly defection war going on in the State.
The party is of the opinion that the TDP was desperate to block the entry of Vijay Sai Reddy into the Parliament and sought to lure more MLAs of Jagan into its fold but failed eventually to achieve this.
It is also of the opinion that locally the issue was not highlighted much in generating people's opinion against the "murder of democratic values" by the TDP leadership due to "a considerable section of the media controlled by the TDP" and hence, wants to embarrass the party.
As for the criticism of TDP that it had not cornered the NDA on the special status and had not taken the protests to Delhi properly, the YSRCP is dismissive of the same claiming it is the responsibility of the BJP and the TDP which are not just allies but also in power in both the Centre and the State.
"We have applied pressure on the Centre for special status. In fact, it is only because of our efforts and pressure that the TDP has kept the issue alive today. Otherwise, it had clearly compromised on the same long ago by arguing that a more important issue is that of development and that it does not matter how the funds flow to the State. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had, in fact, gone ahead to add that there were several States in the country that had not developed despite the status. It is only because of our pressure that he still talks about it,” Vijay Sai Reddy said.
