Hyderabad, March 15 (IANS) The no-confidence motion moved by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the Andhra Pradesh assembly against the Congress government was Friday admitted for debate.
Speaker N. Manohar granted "leave of the
house" to the TRS motion for no-confidence in the council of ministers
after 45 members supported it. Manohar adjourned the house to enable the
Business Advisory Committee (BAC) to meet and decide the modalities for debate
and voting on the motion.
YSR Congress party, which had given a separate
notice to move a no-confidence motion, supported the motion moved by TRS leader
E. Rajender.
The sub-regional party accused the Congress
government of all-round failure.
All 17 members of TRS, YSR Congress (18), Bharatiya
Janata Party (3), Communist Party of India (3), Communist Party of
India-Marxist (1) and Lok Satta (1) stood in support of the motion.
Independent legislator N. Janardhan Reddy also
supported the motion.
The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had
asked its members to remain neutral. However, defying the party diktat, one
member, Harishwar Reddy, supported the no-confidence motion.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which has seven
legislators and recently withdrew support to the government, did not back the
TRS motion.
Congress has 146 members in 295-member assembly.
However, TDP, which has 77 legislators, has so far refused to back the motion
by TRS or YSR Congress, saying it would not fall in their trap.
TDP leaders alleged that the two small parties
moved the no-confidence motion for vested interests.
Chief
Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and T. Harish Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samithi
crossed swords in the Assembly on Friday over the latter’s allegation of
step-motherly treatment meted out to the Telangana region in terms of
sanctioning of schemes and funds.
It all
started when Mr. Rao, who initiated the debate on the no-confidence motion
against the government tabled by his party, contended that discrimination
towards Telangana continued and it was only after the people of the region, by
way of agitations, held the government by its collar that some funds and
schemes were sanctioned.
Mr. Reddy
angrily objected to the word “collar” used by him and advised Mr. Rao not to
speak like a street-rowdy. “Are you a street-rowdy? We sanctioned funds to the
region not out of fear of any one but as per its requirements. I was brought up
and grew in Hyderabad. None can threaten me. I won’t cow down before any one.
If you feel that schemes are sanctioned because some one held the government by
its collar, I will not hereafter sanction a rupee to the region. Come what may.
Do whatever you like,” he declared. At this stage, TRS members rushed to the
well of the House while their Congress counterparts stood up.
Mr. Harish
Rao said what he meant was that agitations by Telangana people amounted to
pulling up the government. Mr. Reddy contended that the using of the word
conveyed a meaning that some one held him by its collar and said he would
withdraw his remark if he was hurt. Mr. Rao also withdrew his remark.
The Chief
Minister questioned the claim made by Mr. Rao that when Telangana Rashtra
Samiti demanded Telangana State, it only reflected the will of region’s people.
Congress which had about 50 MLAs in the region compared to mere 17 of the TRS,
indeed, commanded a larger and true will of people.
Mr.Harish Rao
said his party had served the no-trust move under unavoidable circumstances as
the Congress deceived Telangana people and its government failed on all fronts,
citing power cuts. He appealed to the Telugu Desam party to back the motion,
recalling various anti-government statements made by N. Chandrababu Naidu
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