YSRCP to move no confidence motion against Speaker

· Will not attend the house in this session except for voting on no-confidence motion

· YSRCP complains to Governor about the speaker’s actions

YSRCP on Thursday give a notice of No Confidence against AP Assembly speaker Kodela Shivaprasad to the Assembly Secretary Satyanarayana. The party has also decided not to attend the AP Assembly any further during this session except on the day of voting of the no confidence motion against the Speaker.

The YSRCP had also met the Governor earlier in the day to complain against the attitude of the Government and the speaker.

This is for the first time that the Opposition in any Telugu state deciding to shun the assembly due to the partisan attitude of the presiding officer.

Speaking to mediapersons, YS Jagan accused the government of repeatedly interrupting his speech. He said the government does not have the patience to face the facts. “Is it the way the house is run?. The house is being run in the most horrendous way. How can people’s problems be highlighted if the opposition’s voice gets muzzled?” YS Jagan asked.

YSRCP chief YS Jagan on Thursday reiterated his appeal to telecast at least the last five minutes of his speech on the budget in the AP legislative assembly so that people can judge for themselves whether what he spoke was right or wrong. He said the Speaker had involved himself and stopped him from speaking. YS Jagan said the speaker has passed a dictum disallowing him to highlight the faulty budgetary allocations. He said the TDP was resorting to repeated disruptions to stall his speech, because it did not want the truth to come out.

YS Jagan had also shown final portions of his budget speech to the mediapersons to enable them to judge for themselves whether there was any valid reason for stopping his speech.

Senior leader Mysoora Reddy and all YSRCP MLAs were present.