BJP brouhaha over dissolution

Hyderabad: A 25-member delegation led by the BJP State president Dr K Laxman, former MLAs G Kishan Reddy, Member of Parliament Bandaru Dattatreya met Governor E S L Narasimhan on Thursday and asked him to ensure that the interim government headed by Caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would not pressurise the administration for political gains.

Speaking to media after meeting the Governor at Raj Bhavan here on Thursday, Laxman said, the Governor was briefed on the dictatorial functioning of the TRS government in last four years and his intervention was sought in protecting the rights of the people, people’s organisations and the opposition parties. They referred to how officials had acted like puppets during the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, removing votes of people, suspected to be against the TRS.

That apart, Laxman said, the Governor was also briefed, how young people in the State, who attain the age of 18 years by January 1, 2019, would lose their voting rights due to the early elections. Besides, the seven mandals of the State merged in Andhra Pradesh and a Parliament Act, restraining delimitation of the geographical areas of the constituencies till 2026.

In a memorandum submitted to the Governor, the party asked the Governor, as the custodian of the Constitution, to take steps to protect the constitution from the mavericks of the Caretaker Chief Minister and his Cabinet Ministers. And, the Governor had responded positively and assured to intervene to ensure that there would be no misuse of administrative machinery, he added.

Earlier, in the day, addressing media the State BJP leaders called dissolution of the State Assembly as the second liberation Day after the people of the State had their first liberation from the cruel rule of Nizam. Laxman said, “K Chandrashekar Rao had let down the people who had given TRS a full-five year term to govern the State with his unilateral and undemocratic decision to dissolve the State Assembly.”

Terming that the development for next nine months in the State would be adversely affected, Laxman said, K Chandrashekar Rao was the first among the non-NDA parties to support the simultaneous elections for parliament and the State Assemblies, toeing the line of the proposal mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as regular elections were resulting in wastage of public money.

The TRS had also expressed the same to the Law Commission. But, within a month, how can Chandrashekar Rao take a U-turn and force early Assembly elections, followed by parliament elections on the people of the State, he questioned.

Former BJP MLA G Kishan Reddy dared Chandrashekar Rao to openly announce its poll alliance with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) than trying to divide the votes of the opposition parties to help it forcing secrete understanding. Appealing people to defeat political designs of the Congress and the TRS, he questioned the State government as to how it had allocated land to a private hospital owned by the AIMIM chief?

Dismissing the claims of economic development of the State by Caretaker Chief Minister, Kishan Reddy said, “Growth by pushing the State deep down the debt trap is no development but only done to serve the political interests of KCR and the TRS," he added.

Dattatreya said that KCR was scared of growing anti-government feelings among the people, which would give space to the opposition parties. So, “he dissolved the Assembly before the public fury turned into a tide against his party.”