VIJAYAWADA: Finally, the resignations of five YSR Congress MPs were accepted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday. Confirming the same to TNIE, YSRC Ongole MP YV Subba Reddy said that after meeting with the Speaker on Wednesday, they reaffirmed their decision to resign for the cause of Special Category Status for the State. “We asserted that there was no change in our decision and sought the acceptance of our resignations. We had sent the reconfirmation letters within two hours after meeting the Lok Sabha Speaker and she accepted our resignations,’’ he said.
On April 6, the final day of the Budget Session of Parliament, the YSRC MPs, including Subba Reddy, Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, V Vara Prasad Rao, P Midhun Reddy and YS Avinash Reddy submitted their resignation letters to the Speaker on the issue of SCS for Andhra Pradesh.Describing the resignation of his MPs 14 months ahead of their 5-year term as credible and value-based politics of the party, YSRC chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy said that it highlighted the party’s commitment to special status.
Speaking to mediapersons during his ongoing Praja Sankalpa Yatra in West Godavari district, he said, “There is no reason as to why there should not be bypolls. We will treat it as an honour to fight the byelections on SCS plank and if TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu fields his candidates, people will know who is really committed to SCS. On one hand, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu did not agree to the proposal for quitting of all MPs of the State en masse for the cause of SCS, which should have mounted pressure on the Centre, on the other his party leaders had been trying to distort the sincerity of our MPs who resigned from the posts.”
Though Naidu had taken away three of our MPs, there has been no action against them so far.
Now, TDP leaders are speaking irrelevant things, he said.
It’s a drama, says Naidu
Terming the whole episode of the YSR Congress MPs’ resignation a drama, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said the MPs who announced to submit their resignations on the Special Category Status (SCS) issue way back in 2015, did it now. After conspiring with the BJP, the YSRC leaders had got the process of approval of their resignations delayed.
At last, the Speaker had accepted their resignations.
They are sure that there will be no byelections for the seats vacated by them as the general elections are scheduled to be held in less than a year from now, the Chief Minister said.Addressing a public meeting in Kadapa district, the Chief Minister said that there was no use with the resignations of YSRC MPs now. He alleged that the YSRC leaders, who campaigned for the BJP in Karnataka Assembly elections for getting rid of the cases filed against party chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, were portraying themselves as opponents of the saffron party.
