The Congress party in Telangana is likely to boycott all the assembly sessions to be held in future in protest against the merger of 12 of its MLAs with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi under pressure.
According to sources in the Pradesh Congress Committee, the party leaders are said to be of the view that there was no point in attending the assembly which will anyway be one-sided affair, as the ruling party will not allow the Congress with just five or six members to raise any issue.
“The TRS will just bulldoze the proceedings and we, being in small numbers will have no voice. Moreover, we don’t like to see the faces of our own MLAs sitting in treasury benches,” a Congress leader said.
PCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy wondered how the defected MLAs could hold the meeting of legislature party without permission form the PCC.
“It is shameless on the part of the TRS to purchase our MLAs,” he said.
He pointed out that the Congress MLAs had not defected en masse to the TRS, but had defected one after the other.
“Each of the defectors have been paid crores to defect one at a time over the last four months. The disqualification petitions of the MLA s is pending with the Telangana Speaker for four months now,” he argued.
