Talasani Srinivas Yadav, who was inducted into the State Cabinet as Commercial Taxes minister more than three months ago, is still being counted as the MLA of Telugu Desam Party.
Although Talasani had claimed an hour before taking oath as minister on December 16, 2014, that he had resigned from the post of Sanathnagar MLA and TDP’s primary membership, the party position in Legislative Council, announced by Speaker S Madhusudan Chary clearly shows that Talasani is still a member of TDP.
Similarly, six other MLAs who have quit their parent parties and officially joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi long ago are being counted as the members of their parent parties.
The Telangana Congress party has removed the names of four MLAs – Vithal Reddy, S Redya Naik, Kanakaiah and K Yadaiah from its official website after they defected to the TRS. It even lodged a complaint seeking their disqualification. But in Assembly, they are still part of Congress Legislature Party. Similarly, the three rebel MLAs of TDP – Teegala Krishna Reddy, Talasani Srinivas Yadav and C Dharma Reddy were counted as members of Telugu Desam Legislature Party. Their names have also been removed from the list of TDP MLAs from the official website.
However, following merger of Bahujan Samaj Party with the TRS in the State, its two MLAs have been counted as TRS members. Therefore, as on Thursday, the party position in the Assembly, as announced by the Speaker S Madhusudan Chary, stood as: TRS – 65, Congress – 21; TDP – 15; AIMIM – 7; BJP – 5; YSRCP – 3; BSP – 2 and CPI, CPI (M), Independent one each and one nominated MLA. (INN)