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HYDERABAD
BRS moving president K.T. Rama Rao lashed retired astatine the Congress, stating that they person murdered ideology connected the level of the Assembly connected Wednesday.
Reacting to the Speaker’s determination regarding the defected MLAs, KTR remarked that erstwhile again it’s been proved that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress person perfectly nary respect for the nation’s highest courts oregon the Constitution.
‘Mockery of Constitution’
KTR ridiculed the Congress leadership, stating that simply posing for photos holding a transcript of the Constitution is not enough. “Rahul Gandhi volition spell down successful past arsenic an incompetent person who failed to respect the precise Anti-Defection Law brought successful by his ain father, precocious Rajiv Gandhi,” helium said. KTR termed it a wide show of treble standards by Rahul Gandhi and the Congress enactment to support MLAs who person openly admitted to defecting for ‘development’.
The BRS has decided to instrumentality a ineligible recourse seeking exertion of Anti-Defection Law against its 10 MLAs who allegedly switched loyalty to the ruling Congress aft winning connected the BRS ticket.
The BRS has alleged that Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar delivered his verdict dismissing the disqualification petitions filed against 5 of its MLAs allegedly astatine the behest of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. The Speaker’s unilateral determination dismissing the disqualification petitions was tantamount to ridiculing the Constitution and judiciary.
The bid transcript (dismissing disqualification petitions successful a azygous line) is seemingly prepared astatine the Jubilee Hills mansion of the Chief Minister, who assured extortion to the defected legislators, BRS MLAs K.P. Vivekanand and Kalvakuntla Sanjay said recalling the Chief Minister’s assertion that determination was nary scope for byelections successful the adjacent future.
Enact peculiar law
In a statement, erstwhile Minister T. Harish Rao and erstwhile MP B. Vinod Kumar termed Speaker’s ruling a “serious stroke to democracy.” He demanded law reforms: “The Tenth Schedule indispensable beryllium amended. Parliament should instantly enact a peculiar instrumentality to woody with defections.” He said: “By today’s judgment, the Speaker has rendered Rajiv Gandhi’s instrumentality useless. The Congress Party itself has shown the federation that the anti-defection instrumentality is ineffective.”
Mr. Harish Rao said: “Rahul Gandhi’s slogan of ‘Save the Constitution’ has been afloat exposed contiguous by the Speaker’s verdict. This incidental has gravely damaged the antiauthoritarian principles and amounts to a usurpation of the Constitution by the Congress government.”
