The TDP on Tuesday accused chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy of running away from the challenge of holding a referendum he had thrown at the opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu on the floor of the House on Monday.
The issue figured in the assembly towards the end of the day when TDP deputy leader M Narsimhlu raised the issue. Reacting to it, legislative affairs minister K Rosaiah said that it was not possible to ask the election commission to conduct referendum on the credibility of chief minister and opposition leader since there was no such provision in the Constitution.
In his inimitable style Rosaiah tried to divert the issue by referring to the observations made by Naidu on the dependability of electronic voting machines. He said as chief minister, Naidu had earlier praised the EVMs and said that it was being followed across the globe. Now that he had suffered a debacle for the second consecutive time, he was blaming the EVMs.
Later talking to media, Narsimhulu said that Rosaiah was not present when the issue cropped up in the house on Monday. It was the CM who had thrown the challenge that Naidu should agree for a referendum on credibility factor. When Naidu accepted the challenge with a rider that three other issues, corruption, governance and political killings during TDP and Congress rule in last five years be included for referendum, YSR accepted the amendment and said the loser should quit politics. Naidu accepted the condition and chief minister said that he would indicate the dates.
So he wanted to know the status of the challenge and if the government was serious about it. The reply of the legislative affairs minister indicates that the government was now running away from the issue, he added.
The issue figured in the assembly towards the end of the day when TDP deputy leader M Narsimhlu raised the issue. Reacting to it, legislative affairs minister K Rosaiah said that it was not possible to ask the election commission to conduct referendum on the credibility of chief minister and opposition leader since there was no such provision in the Constitution.
In his inimitable style Rosaiah tried to divert the issue by referring to the observations made by Naidu on the dependability of electronic voting machines. He said as chief minister, Naidu had earlier praised the EVMs and said that it was being followed across the globe. Now that he had suffered a debacle for the second consecutive time, he was blaming the EVMs.
Later talking to media, Narsimhulu said that Rosaiah was not present when the issue cropped up in the house on Monday. It was the CM who had thrown the challenge that Naidu should agree for a referendum on credibility factor. When Naidu accepted the challenge with a rider that three other issues, corruption, governance and political killings during TDP and Congress rule in last five years be included for referendum, YSR accepted the amendment and said the loser should quit politics. Naidu accepted the condition and chief minister said that he would indicate the dates.
So he wanted to know the status of the challenge and if the government was serious about it. The reply of the legislative affairs minister indicates that the government was now running away from the issue, he added.
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