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Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Ayyanna Patrudu said YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president and erstwhile Chief Minister of the State Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was escaped to situation the rejection of his plea for Leader of the Opposition (LoP) presumption successful courts but helium would not bash thing retired of fearfulness arsenic helium was bound by rules and regulations.
Jagan Mohan Reddy would person go LoP lone if the YSRCP had capable numbers successful the House. “The information that the YSRCP has lone 11 MLAs should not beryllium overlooked,” helium observed.
Making a little connection during a treatment connected instrumentality and bid successful the Assembly connected Thursday (September 25, 2025), Mr. Patrudu said Mr. Mohan Reddy’s continued lack successful the Assembly and restraining the different YSRCP MLAs from attending the sessions were unacceptable.
He noted that triumph and decision were communal and adjacent large leaders specified arsenic Indira Gandhi and N.T. Rama Rao person suffered setbacks successful elections.
The Speaker recalled that politicians should basal for values, similar Sardar Gouthu Latchanna, nether whose stewardship the Swatantra Party had won 60 Assembly constituencies successful 1978 successful the unified State of Andhra Pradesh.
Latchanna was fixed LoP designation astatine that clip arsenic his enactment had the required strength. But, helium resigned from the station aft respective MLAs discontinue his party, saying that helium was nary longer eligible to stay arsenic LoP. That was the benignant of value-based authorities Andhra Pradesh had seen.
“Here is simply a person [Jagan Mohan Reddy] who is demanding LoP presumption successful spite of his enactment falling abbreviated of the numbers successful the Assembly. He should retrieve that I americium bound by rules.” Mr. Patrudu advised the YSRCP chief, reminding him that arsenic MLAs, helium and his enactment leaders were answerable to his electors.
