TDP to move no-confidence motion against Congress govt in Andhra

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will move a no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh in the winter session of the state legislature, expected to begin from December 1.

“We will move the no-confidence motion against the government on the farmers’ issues as well as its anti-people policies,” TDP politburo members K Yerran Naidu and Yanamala Ramakrishnudu said here on Saturday.

Though the TDP wanted to move a no-confidence motion in the Assembly in June, the session lasted only for a day for the election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress and the separatist Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) had challenged the TDP to table a no-confidence motion against the government. However, the Jagan loyalists have now announced that they would not vote against the Congress government.

 

The YSR Congress had been alleging that the Kiran Kumar Reddy government was surviving only with the support of the TDP, as the ruling and the principal opposition parties were into “match-fixing”.

“The no-confidence motion will prove, who is into match-fixing and with whom,” Yerran Naidu and Yanamala remarked.

One after the other, the “so-called loyalists” of Jagan were returning to the Congress and asserting that they would not pull down the government, the TDP leaders pointed out. “One day, Jagan himself will merge with the Congress,” they claimed.

However, the no-confidence motion is not likely to not pose any threat to the ruling Congress government, as the TDP only has 83 members in the 294-member AP Assembly.

If the TRS supports the no-confidence motion, as promised, another 12 members could be added to the tally. The CPI and the CPM have four and one MLAs, respectively. They are yet to take a stand on the no-trust vote. The lone Lok Satta Party MLA N Jayaprakash Narayan announced that he would support the no-confidence motion against the government.