Rebel Congress MLA from Anantapur B Gurunath Reddy, owing allegiance to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, came out with an interesting demand to corner assembly speaker Nadendla Manohar, who has been deliberately delaying taking action against the rebel MLAs who had voted against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government during the no-confidence motion in the assembly in December.
Gurunath Reddy told the Speaker that if the latter was not interested in disqualifying the rebel MLAs for defying the party whip, he should recognize them as the MLAs belonging to the YSR Congress party.
“We want to go to the people and get elected as YSR Congress MLAs. If we are not given that opportunity, the Speaker should at least treat us YSR Congress MLAs and allot us separate seats in the assembly,” he said.
There is reasoning in Gurunath Reddy’s demand. Obviously, the Speaker can’t acknowledge the defiance of party whip, then he should declare the rebels as YSR Cong MLAs. At least, Jagan will have some figure in the assembly!
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