TDP Gives No-confidence Notice Against Govt.
Taking advantage of a brief session of state Assembly convened by the chief minister to elect the Speaker, TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu convened an emergency meeting of all available MLAs and senior leaders and decided to give a notice of no-confidence motion. According to the TDP leaders, it is a win-win situation for them. The chair will have no option but to accept the motion as it requires support of only 30 members to get it admitted. This would provide an opportunity for them to 'expose' the government. However, if the assembly meets only one day with a single-point agenda of electing a new Speaker, the no-confidence issue may not come up now.
However, the Congress government is confident that it would be able to weather the storm since it has 155 members in a House of 293 plus another 28 allies, including 7 from MIM and 18 from PRP and 3 independents. The TDP has 90 members, TRS 11, BJP 2, Left 5, and YSR Congress 1. To defeat the government, the opposition would require another 40 members. It now remains to be seen whether there are some MLAs in the Congress owing allegiance to Jagan, those who might cross vote.
Explaining why the party took the decision, Naidu said "The state government is being ruled by inefficient people. It has slipped in development by 20 years compared to other states. Farmers are suffering, students are not getting fee reimbursement and weavers are committing suicides. The government has failed to act even when people are dying of rabies. I do not know what the outcome will be. We want to expose the government's failure. It has been insensitive to people's miseries and the agitations launched by us. We are not interested in short cut methods to come to power. But if it falls, there is nothing we can do. We are ready to face the elections."