The Telangana BJP boycotted the oath-taking ceremony of Akbaruddin Owaisi, an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, who was appointed because the interim speaker for the primary session of the third Telangana State Legislative Meeting. BJP MLAs objected to Owaisi’s appointment, claiming it violated norms as there have been different senior members within the Home.
In a letter to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, BJP MLAs cited the violation of guidelines and urged her to put aside Owaisi’s nomination as pro-tem speaker. They warned of boycotting the swearing-in occasion if their issues weren’t addressed.
The letter acknowledged, “On this context, the TS-BJP requests you to put aside the nomination of Sri Akbaruddin Owaisi as Protem Speaker because it constitutes a violation of norms and instructs appointment of the seniormost member. The TS-BJP additionally requests you to instruct the officers involved to withhold the method of election of a brand new full-time Speaker for the newly constituted meeting pending nomination of a seniormost member as Speaker. The TS-BJP, in any other case, might be compelled to chorus from taking oath in entrance of an individual who’s appointed in opposition to the norms.”
AIMIM chief Akbaruddin Owaisi was appointed because the pro-tem speaker, a transfer contested by the BJP, which argued that the custom was to nominate the senior most particular person within the Meeting to the position. G Kishan Reddy, the state BJP president, alleged that Owaisi’s appointment was a results of an understanding between Congress and AIMIM, claiming Congress’s skinny majority within the Meeting might result in a collapse, and therefore, AIMIM was strategically positioned as pro-tem Speaker.
Reddy expressed opposition to the appointment primarily based on a violation of legislative meeting guidelines and asserted that BJP members would chorus from taking the oath with Owaisi within the chair. He accused Congress of appeasement politics and violating legislative traditions merely three days after assuming energy. Reddy highlighted the BJP’s declare of a tacit understanding between Congress and AIMIM, emphasizing that the election of the Speaker ought to happen after appointing a senior member as pro-tem Speaker.
The BJP plans to lift the difficulty with the Governor and insisted that their MLAs take the oath solely after the common Speaker assumes workplace. Reddy concluded by stating that the true colors of Congress have been revealed, urging the folks to query the standards behind Owaisi’s appointment in violation of guidelines.
With inputs from PTI
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