139 Telangana resignations reach SC door
An MLA has questioned the legality of the resignations being kept in abeyance.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: It will soon be known whether the 139 MLAs from the Telangana region were serious in submitting resignations from the Andhra Pradesh assembly to the Speaker over the demand for carving out of a separate state, for one of them on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction for acceptance of their letters.
In what can also potentially interfere with Congress leadership’s move to keep the Telangana issue on the backburner, M Narayana Reddy, MLA from Nizamabad, filed a PIL petition before a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and justices J M Panchal and B S Chauhan questioning the legality of the assembly Speaker’s decision to keep the resignations in abeyance.
Though the bench kept the petition for hearing on February 1, it is likely to be watched keenly by around 200 MLAs who cutting across party lines had tendered their resignations both in support and against the move for creation of a separate Telangana state.
Citing past parliamentary and legislative practice, Reddy said Speakers had always accepted the resignations of MPs and MLAs instantaneously once they were satisfied that these were genuine and being tendered voluntarily by the people’s representative.
Reddy said as many as 105 MPs of Lok Sabha tendered their resignations between July 24, 1989, and August 8, 1989, and the then Speaker Balram Jhakar had accepted them the day they were tendered and this procedure was identical to Rule 186 of ‘Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha’, which was published much later in 2004.
In what can also potentially interfere with Congress leadership’s move to keep the Telangana issue on the backburner, M Narayana Reddy, MLA from Nizamabad, filed a PIL petition before a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and justices J M Panchal and B S Chauhan questioning the legality of the assembly Speaker’s decision to keep the resignations in abeyance.
Though the bench kept the petition for hearing on February 1, it is likely to be watched keenly by around 200 MLAs who cutting across party lines had tendered their resignations both in support and against the move for creation of a separate Telangana state.
Citing past parliamentary and legislative practice, Reddy said Speakers had always accepted the resignations of MPs and MLAs instantaneously once they were satisfied that these were genuine and being tendered voluntarily by the people’s representative.
Reddy said as many as 105 MPs of Lok Sabha tendered their resignations between July 24, 1989, and August 8, 1989, and the then Speaker Balram Jhakar had accepted them the day they were tendered and this procedure was identical to Rule 186 of ‘Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha’, which was published much later in 2004.
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