Even as the agitation by the farmers of Amaravati to prevent the shifting of capital city to Visakhapatnam has reached its peak, Jana Sena Party president and Pawan Kalyan is making a late entry.
Within hours of the Andhra Pradesh assembly adopting a resolution to initiate a comprehensive inquiry into the allegations of insider trading in Amaravati, the capital region of the state, the crime investigation department has started cracking the whip.
With Andhra Pradesh legislative council chairman Mohd Ahmed Sharif sending the two crucial bills on the capital city to the select committee, YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is working out all options to find a way forward.
The Jagan Mohan Reddy government, with a whopping majority of 151 MLAs in the Lower House (Assembly) of 175, had failed to get its bills passed in the Upper House (Legislative Council).
The decision of Andhra Pradesh state legislative council chairman Mohd Ahmed Sharif to refer the two bills related to state capital might be a setback for YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, but it is just temporary.
At least for another three months, Amaravati will continue to remain the state capital of Andhra Pradesh, as the Telugu Desam Party members in the legislative council successfully halted the three capitals bills of the YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has been resorting to all sorts of gimmicks to stop Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan’s capital shift plans from Amaravathi.
The Andhra Pradesh tableau will reflect the culture, tradition and lifestyle of people showcasing the Tirumala Tirupati Brahmotsavam, classical Kuchipudi dance, Kondapalli handicrafts and Kalankari paintings using natural colours in the Republic Day parade.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has engaged the services of senior legal counsel and former Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi to argue the case of the state government in the high court on the capital issue.
When a “press note” in the name of “Jana Sena Adhikara Prakatana” was leaked to the media on Tuesday stating that party president and power star Pawan Kalyan suspended his party’s lone MLA in Andhra Pradesh assembly Rapaka Varaprasada Rao, it did not surprise anybody.
The Telugu Desam Party received a setback on Tuesday night when two of its MLCs voted in favour of the YSR Congress party after the debate on a motion moved by the party under Rule 71 of the business rules to oppose the discussion on the two government bills.
Andhra Pradesh Assembly speaker Thammineni Sitaram had referred the “unruly behaviour” of the TDP MLAs in the House, to the Ethics Committee of the Assembly.
Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had recommended strong and disciplinary action against the TDP legislators who crossed the rules of the Assembly.
It is nothing but natural in politics that when the ruling party tries to bulldoze its decisions, the opposition parties try to stall them by all means. It is all in the game.
Great leaders tend to have ideologies in common. Despite meager distractions, they tend to accomplish their objectives with untrammeled vision.