AP Legislative Council Abolition Full Story | AP CM Jagan | Chandrababu Naidu | YSR | NTR | TV5 News

Описание: AP Legislative Council Abolition Full Story | AP CM Jagan | Chandrababu Naidu | YSR | NTR | TV5 News Telugu
The Andhra Pradesh assembly on Monday passed a statutory resolution seeking to abolish the state legislative council, days after the YSRCP government failed to get two crucial bills on its plans to have three capitals cleared by the opposition TDP-dominated upper house.
All 133 members present in the 175-member House, when the division vote was taken at 6pm, voted in favour, and the resolution under Article 169(1) of the Constitution was adopted unanimously. Article 169(1) provides for the abolition of the legislative council of a state, or for the creation of such a council, if the legislative assembly of the state passes a resolution to that effect by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting.

Speaker Tammineni Seetaram announced that the resolution was adopted by a majority as stipulated under Article 169(1). "The legislative assembly of the state of Andhra Pradesh resolves that the legislative council of the state be abolished," the resolution read. As per the Constitution, it is now for the Centre to take a call on the issue.
By moving for the council's abolition, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy was seeking to undo the action of his late father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy who, as the then chief minister of erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, got the upper house revived in March 2007. The chief minister, who moved the one-line resolution in the assembly amid a boycott by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and hours after the state cabinet cleared the measure, said he was feeling proud over the decision to abolish the council and maintained it was taken "purely in public interest".

TDP chief and Leader of the Opposition in the assembly N. Chandrababu Naidu flayed the government for the move.
NTR & Council
In 1983, the Telugu film’s superstar NT Rama Rao delivered a crushing defeat on the Cong (I). He had radical ideas and being autocratic and a man in a hurry he tried to bring in drastic changes. But to his surprise, he found the Legislative Council, dominated by the Congress frustrating his moves.

NTR, the TDP founder, the charismatic and forceful orator that he was, got the Council abolished in 1985 describing it as a burden on the exchequer. Further, he argued that it was only delaying legislation aimed at the good of poor people.

The Council is a house of the unelected, mainly handing out favours to politicians and wasting public money. Interestingly, when the Cong (I) came back to power in 1989 through M Chenna Reddy, it tried to revive the Council. But he lost the CM post quickly, and in five years, the Cong (I) foisted three more CMs and got entangled in internal politics.

The TDP, which came back to power in 1994 with NTR again at the helm also got caught entangled in an internal power struggle, which saw the emergence of Chandrababu Naidu in 1995. He too did not bother about the revival of the Council.

YSR & the Council
Ironically, it was YS Rajasekhara Reddy, father of YS Jagan, who as Chief Minister (2004-09) got the Council revived in 2007.

Though Jagan has started replicating all the successful welfare measures of YSR that he promised in the run-up to the polls, and also christening them after his father, in the case of the Council, he is all set to differ.

Like NTR, Jagan, though young, is a man in a hurry, who wants to be a change-maker and leave his imprint on the State. To this end, he has started making quick moves with a slew of welfare measures and now the three-capital model, which will effectively erase the ‘grand vision of Naidu’s world-class capital of Amaravati’.

It is also no secret that Jagan does not believe in having an opposition, be it within the party or outside. YSR too brooked no criticism, but mellowed and matured through his term.

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