The opposition YSR Congress Occasion on Friday skipped the elections to the general public accounts committee (PAC) of the Andhra Pradesh state legislature, paving method for the unanimous election of the ruling Telugu Desam Occasion-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance members.
Because the 10-day winter session of the state meeting concluded on Friday, speaker Ch Ayyanna Patrudu introduced the election of TDP members Pulaparthi Ramanjaneyulu (Jana Sena), Sriram Rajagopal, B V Jayanageswara Reddy, Arimilli Radhakrishna, Ashok Reddy, Burla Ramanjaneyulu, Nakka Anandbabu, Kolla Lalitha Kumari (all TDP) and P Vishnu Kumar Raju (Bharatiya Janata Occasion) because the members of the PAC.
The voting came about within the meeting committee corridor by way of a preferential voting system, with MLAs casting their votes utilizing poll papers.
Senior YSRCP lawmaker and former minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, who filed his nomination for the PAC on Thursday, stayed away from the polling. The YSRCP has solely 11 members within the meeting, whereas it requires a minimal of 20 MLAs to win the election.
Of the elected NDA members, senior lawmaker from Bhimavaram Pulaparthi Ramanjaneyulu shall be declared because the PAC chairman. He was nominated by occasion president and deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan.
The PAC has, in all, 12 members, together with the chairperson. Of the 11 members, three shall be chosen from the legislative council. The NDA didn’t discipline any MLC candidates for the member posts, because it has solely 10 members within the 58-member council, whereas the YSRCP has 38 members.
The speaker additionally introduced the structure of estimates committee and public enterprises committee (PEC). The estimates committee contains Bhuma Akhila Priya, Bandaru Satyanandam, Valmiki Parthasarathy, Eluri Sambasiva Rao, Nimmaka Jayakrishna, Kandula Narayana Reddy and Sudhir Kumar.
The PEC has been constituted with A Ananda Rao, Eshwar Rao, Satyanarayana, Gouthu Shireesha, Kuna Ravi Kumar, Varla Kumar Raja, Tenali Sravan Kumar, Vasantha Krishna Prasad and Ranga Rao.
Reacting to the elections to the PAC and different committees, YSRCP spokesperson T Chandrasekhar describing it as a darkish day in parliamentary democracy, because the ruling NDA had denied PAC chairman put up to the opposition occasion, with the singular intention that nobody ought to query its irregularities in managing state funds.
“It has been a conference and observe in parliamentary democracy to nominate the member from the opposition as chairman of the PAC regardless of the variety of MLAs it has, however the coalition authorities has carried out away with it making a mockery of the establishment,” Chandrasekhar mentioned.
He mentioned the YSRCP with 11 eleven seats is the one Opposition left within the meeting and to deprive it of PAC put up is nothing quick heckling on the establishment, which is supposed to be a watchdog of the general public finance and the way it’s being spent by the ruling occasion.
