Hyderabad, August 28: The ruling party managers have carved out a new strategy to buy time and scare the MLAs siding with YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Congress party has decided to seek disqualification of its 26 legislators, who recently submitted their resignation letters to the Legislature Secretary S Raja Sadaram, according to sources. Disqualification is considered as the time consuming process as the Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar would have to first serve notices to them and then seek their reply to begin a long chain of interactions.
Political analysts say the disqualification move would put the Jagan MLAs in a fix and as they would lose the opportunity to encash on the sympathy wave that normally prevails in the by-elections. This would also give the Congress party breathing time to plan and executive new strategies to counter Jagan.
The Government Whip Kondru Muralimohan on Friday had a meeting with the Speaker and reportedly told him that the all the 26 congress legislators who have moved to the Jagan’s camp be served with disqualification notices. Meanwhile, the Speaker informed that he was in receipt of letters given by 26 legislators and directed those letters to the assembly office for verification of the signatures and check whether they were submitted in the prescribed format.
Stating that he was discharging his duties under the influence of none, Manohar asserted that he would take his own time to verify the authenticity of resignation letters would proceed according to the rule. As a part of the process, the Speaker might summon all pro-Jagan legislators individually to confirm that they had submitted their resignation letters without fear or pressure.
Sources also revealed that the Speaker might not accept the resignations of pro-Jagan MLAs as it would initiate another round of mass resignations by the Telangana legislators.
——Agencies