Cong, TDP MLAs should insist on voting: YSRCP

The Ysr Congress Party has demanded all members opposing the State division to join them in the fight for insisting to allow for voting on the clauses of the draft bill and before that demand for a resolution in the Assembly to keep the State united.

"TDP leaders of Seemandhra region who were insisting on Samaikhyandhra and protesting in the House and in the BAC meetings suddenly fell silent and started debate on the Bill along with their Congress counterparts while we have only one stand of keeping the State united, unlike N Chandrababu Naidu who has been exhibiting his double standards," party deputy floor leader Shobha Nagi Reddy told reporters here on Saturday. We have opposed all the clauses o the Bill and we appeal to Congress and TDP leaders of Seemandhra to join us in keeping the State united as running the CWC decision on the people of the State who are against the division is not fair, she said.

"It is high time Kiran Kumar Reddy and N Chandrababu Naidu tell the House openly as to whether or not they stand for a united State categorically. TDP leader unleashing his MLAs to bat for their respective regional affiliations reflects that the party lacks a policy or a stand which cannot be accepted as this issue concerns the entire population of the State," she said. The Chief Minister, who has been maintaining that he will speak out when the time comes has lost relevance as the Bill has come and is being debated. He should say whether he opposes the separate State or supports it with clarity. Instead, the two leaders are targeting YSRCP which has been unambiguously in favour of the united State, she said.

Shobha Nagi Reddy said that while YSRCP Honorary President YS Vijayamma was protesting and seeking an assurance from the leader of the House that there would be voting to the Bill, members from Telangana region have protested. But, no one from Seemandhra had supported her demand. This shows the nexus of Congress and TDP in passing the division Bill which is against the spirit of democracy as it has no consent of the Assembly, she said.