In a dramatic development, two opposition MPs Gaurav Gogoi of Congress and BRS floor leader, Nageshwar Rao, submitted papers of No Trust motion against the Modi Government on Wednesday.
In what can be seen as ‘exposing’ the fault line in the Opposition camp, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP already says it will oppose the motion.
YSRCP member of parliament and leader V. Vijayasai Reddy said, “When everything is going good, where is the necessity for No Confidence Motion? We are going to oppose the Motion.”
The YSRCP has 22 members in the Lower House of Parliament and TDP has three and N Chandrababu Naidu is also likely to back Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Technically, the BJP has no MP from Andhra Pradesh but the paradox of politics is such that all 25 MPs in the southern state are now set to extend support to the phenomenon called Moditva.
During Presidential elections in 2022 also, the BJP nominee got 100 percent votes in favour of Draupadi Murmu.
The BRS led by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, whose party has tabled another Motion of No Confidence, has nine MPs from the state.
Out of 17 in this state, AIMIM has one (Asaduddin Owaisi), the BJP has four and Congress three.
YSRCP’s decision to support NDA is to tell the voters back home that Jagan Mohan Reddy remains a fiercely anti-Congress leader.
In 2018, the TDP also had moved a no confidence motion (along with Congress) on the issue that Andhra Pradesh was not given Special Category status. In the 2019 polls, the Naidu-led outfit was humbled.
Paradoxically, the YSRCP had then supported the No Trust Motion moved by TDP as it also favoured Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh.
In 2018 No trust motion also during the Monsoon session of Parliament, even BRS (then TRS) had voted against the Modi government. Earlier in the day, BJP’s lone Naga woman MP (from north east) S Phangnon
Konyak flayed the opposition parties using quite a few strong words.
She said the people in the country are “well aware of its (opposition’s) duplicity”.
“In its desperate attempt to retain a semblance of relevance, the opposition is trying to paint itself with a new color. However fancy the color, people are all well too aware of its
duplicity,” she tweeted.
The BJP MP in Rajya Sabha also said, “It will be a short-lived experiment -one the opposition would like to quickly forget”.
Another senior BJP leader from north east, M Chuba Ao (saffron party’s national vice president), told this journalist, : “I will not say much. It seems the Congress and other opposition parties have only used rhetoric
power on the Manipur issues but now do not have confidence among themselves on how to face Home Minister Amit Shah on a debate on Manipur situation in Parliament”.
Both the northeastern leaders’ statements come close on the heels of Home Minister Amit Shah stating in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. “We don’t have anything to hide. We have to go to the polls and people are watching you. Create a conducive atmosphere for a discussion on this sensitive issue of Manipur…. The government has no fear and anyone who wants to discuss it is welcome”.
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