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Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (APLA) Speaker Ayyanna Patrudu stated that the salaries and allowances of nationalist representatives who bash not be Assembly sessions indispensable beryllium cut. Mr. Patrudu further suggested a drastic measurement of ‘sending them backmost to the people’s court’ by enabling voters to callback those who proceed to disregard their responsibilities, truthful arsenic thatch the errant members a due lesson.
The Speaker was hinting astatine the continuous lack of 11 MLAs of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), including Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, from the Legislative Assembly and the apt consequences thereof.
Addressing the 86th All India Conference of Presiding Officers connected the taxable Accountability of Legislature towards the People successful the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026), Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu said the nonaccomplishment of immoderate MLAs to execute their duties successful the APLA and not attending adjacent a azygous time of sessions oregon participating successful a azygous statement till day since their predetermination to the House successful June 2024 was astir regrettable.
“The information that these MLAs were regularly drafting their salaries and allowances successful absentia caused large pain,” helium observed, questioning however specified behaviour and unethical behaviour could beryllium justified.
“Since determination are nary circumstantial rules to prohibit this benignant of behavior, I petition the Lok Sabha Speaker to amusement america a mode forward. I volition besides question proposal from my chap Speakers arsenic it is not conscionable an contented for the Andhra Pradesh Legislature. The nationalist volition usage these examples to overgarment each elected representatives with the aforesaid brush,” helium noted.
Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu said the Constitution designed the Legislative strategy to relation with the utmost transparency and it was often compared to a ‘glass house’ owed to the visibility of everything happening inside. “Any strategy that lacks transparency could not beryllium held accountable to the people,” helium pointed out.
He further said that formulating laws done treatment connected Bills, debating nationalist issues, bringing urgent matters of nationalist value to the government’s announcement and holding the authorities answerable to the radical were immoderate of the halfway functions of the Legislative system.
“In spite of having specified profound responsibilities and powers, nationalist spot successful representatives was diminishing time by day, calling for superior introspection and efforts not to perpetrate errors that would marque the radical look down upon the MLAs,” helium commented.
The Speaker went connected to accidental that portion the colonisation and their problems are expanding exponentially, the fig of moving days of Legislatures has been decreasing twelvemonth aft year. “Keeping this successful view, Legislatures should relation for astatine slightest 60 days a twelvemonth arsenic lone done predominant meetings of the House the MLAs could clasp the authorities accountable,” helium added.
