In what is seen as a blatant unconstitutional move, we have the act
of Telangana Speaker merging 12 Telangana TDP MLAs in to TRS
Legislative Party since they enjoy around two-thirds majority. This is
perhaps the first time in Telugu politics that such a thing has
happened.
This merger now takes the ruling
party’s tally to about 84 in the assembly. On the other side, sources
say that TRS is making all moves to even merge YSR Congress Party MLAs
into their main Legislative Party.
YSR Congress
secured three MLA seats in the 2014 elections all from Khammam
district. Two of them namely Thati Venkateswarulu and Madhanlal already
entered TRS. They will be very soon writing a letter of merger to the
Speaker.
Without any doubt even that would be
accepted. This will then take ruling party’s count to around 86 then.
The parties will continue to exist only on paper after the merger of
members. The only difference is that the defected MLAs have no such need
to face by-elections and they will be sharing company with the ruling
party in Assembly.
