T MLAs plan for common strategy
HYDERABAD: In order to counter the strategies of their Seemandhra counterparts when the T-Bill is debated in the Assembly, MLAs from the Telangana region cutting across political lines have decided to form a coordination panel among themselves to formulate a common strategy on daily basis.
D Sridhar Babu, who has resigned from the Cabinet, might head this panel and try to ensure floor coordination among MLAs from Telangana region, who belong to various political hues, during the debate on the T-Bill in the House. The Telangana legislators also decided not to criticise one another on the floor of the House till the T-Bill is returned to the President from the Assembly.
They also resolved to send a letter to the President Pranab Mukherjee at an appropriate time expressing their objections on the contentious clauses in the T-Bill such as keeping the administrative powers on law and order in Hyderabad with governor post-bifurcation, if the Assembly fails to debate the Bill properly.
Following the resignation of Sridhar Babu from the Cabinet for transferring the legislative affairs portfolio from him, panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy on Friday organised a meeting with the Telangana MLAs of Congress, TDP, TRS and BJP at the Club House in the Ministers' Quarters here.
The meeting was aimed at chalking out an action plan to checkmate the chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's camp, which is making allout attempts to move a Samaikyandhra resolution in the Assembly apart from pressing for voting on the TBill clause-wise to throw a spanner in the works of the Centre in completing the process of bifurcation of the state at the earliest. Apart from Jana Reddy and Sridhar Babu, several other ministers from Telangana also took part in the meeting.
Several Congress MPs along with deputy chief minister C Damodara Rajanarasimha were also present. Emerging from the meeting, Jana Reddy, TRSLP leader E Rajender, TDP MLA E Dayakar Rao and BJP MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy took serious exception to the removal of the legislative affairs portfolio from Sridhar Babu.
'It is undemocratic and immoral to transfer the legislative affairs portfolio from Telangana minister D Sridhar Babu to Seemandhra minister Sake Sailajanath in the middle of the Assembly session. Chief minister's act only shows the high-handed behaviour of Seemandhra rulers towards the Telangana politicos and people. We deplore this act of Kiran Reddy,' the leaders said.
They felt that the chief minister had resorted to this extreme step only to move a Samaikyandhra resolution in the Assembly. Jana Reddy called upon all the MLAs from Telangana to attend the Assembly session without fail and cooperate with the efforts of the Speaker to hold a smooth debate on the T-Bill in the House in order to complete the entire exercise before Jan 23, the deadline for sending the Bill back to the President. 'We all will cooperate with the Speaker to conduct the debate on the T-Bill.
We have also decided to give maximum time to our Seemandhra counterparts to express their views on the contents of the Bill in the Assembly by reducing our time. Instead of elaborately expressing our views orally in the House, we will write a letter to the President citing our opinions on the contents of the Bill,' Dayakar Rao said.
News Posted: 4 January, 2014
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