Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP chief Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy Friday suspended 4 celebration legislators for violating the whip and cross-voting for a Telugu Desam Occasion (TDP) candidate within the legislative council polls.
The TDP Thursday received a seat within the MLA-quota MLC polls regardless of missing the energy to get a majority. TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu Friday termed the win as “god’s script”.
The 4 suspended YSRCP MLAs are Vundavalli Sridevi from Tadikonda constituency, Mekapati Chandra Sekhar Reddy representing Udayagiri seat, Anam Ramanarayana Reddy from Venkatagiri constituency and Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy representing Nellore Rural.
Advisor to the state authorities Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy Friday introduced that the celebration, after inner investigation, discovered that the 4 MLAs had violated the celebration whip and crossed the road to assist the TDP.
Three of the 4 suspended MLAs have been publicly talking in opposition to the celebration. Sridevi, nevertheless, on Thursday stated she didn’t cross vote.
“In our inner surveys, we do get to know which MLA won’t win the subsequent election. So, our CM could be very open about it and continuously in contact with such MLAs and assures them about accommodating them someplace else in case they don’t get the tickets. Whereas different such MLAs are nonetheless loyal to us, it seems that 4 of them have crossed the road and selected to cross vote,” stated Ramakrishna Reddy.
“Now we have info that the MLAs have been provided Rs 15 to twenty crore (by TDP) and was additionally maybe promised a ticket from their constituency within the subsequent MLA election by (Chandrababu) Naidu…cash was additionally exchanged,” he stated, including that the choice to droop was taken after a radical investigation by the celebration and after Jagan Mohan Reddy was satisfied.
ThePrint reached TDP representatives for a remark. A response is awaited.
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How cross-voters have been ‘recognized’
TDP’s lone candidate Panchumarthi Anuradha was elected because the member of the legislative council after securing 23 votes, regardless of the celebration having solely 19 practical MLAs. 4 of its 23 MLAs, who received within the 2019 elections, shifted loyalties to YSRCP with out leaving their authentic celebration to keep away from the anti-defection regulation.
Six leaders of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Occasion (YSRCP) have been additionally elected to the council Thursday.
The YSRCP cut up the MLAs in teams of twenty-two to vote for every of their candidates in seven MLC polls. The MLAs, particularly these on whom the celebration had a doubt, got a sure ‘code’ (sample) on how or whom to vote for within the polls. The MLAs had to decide on somebody on first choice after which second. Relying on the change within the code, the cross voters have been recognized, celebration sources advised ThePrint.
Ramakrishna Reddy Thursday alleged that Naidu took to horse-trading and poaching of their MLAs and stated “the previous chief minister has had a historical past of it”.
The suspended MLAs, from the celebration, will nevertheless proceed with their legislature positions.
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