Leader of Opposition in Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was destroying the sanctity of the Assembly and he was cutting the number of days of session gradually as he doesn’t want to face the opposition questions on the all round failure of the government.
It was not the commitment to discuss the problems to engage the opposition to find solutions to these problems but the constitutional obligation that was responsible for the summoning of the Assembly last week, he said.
Shabbir Ali said that the previous Congress regime had a history of holding Assembly sessions for about 40 days, the TRS Government has damaged convention by reducing Assembly and Council sessions to a formality. In 2014, he said, the Assembly functioned for just 25 days and this year, the period got further cut just to 22 days.
“KCR openly enacted the drama of Assembly session and ran away from debating public issues. After the suspension of entire opposition, the Assembly session turned into TRS Legislature Party meeting. If KCR was serious, then he should have continued the session till October 10, as decided by the Business Advisory Committee (BAC). Instead, he closed up the session three days earlier showing utter disrespect for democracy, Constitution and Legislative norms,” he said.
“As per Article 85 of the Constitution of India, it is mandatory to convene Assembly session once in every six months. Failing which, might lead to dissolution of the Cabinet and even House. Since last Assembly session concluded on March 26, KCR could not have delayed the session this time even by a day,” he said.
“On October 1, Assembly was adjourned in just seven minutes and in the next sitting, entire opposition was suspended from the House for remainder of the session in just 12 minutes. No public issues were discussed during the monsoon session,” said Shabbir Ali and asked what does it indicate?
He said his party would also agitate to save democracy in the state of Telangana.
