Amid the foul cries from party, Rajya Sabha approves TDP MPs move to join BJP
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New Delhi, Jun 22: The election of 2019 broke many records with no. of voters and voting. But these elections changed the entire pattern of politics. Many MPs from other parties are now attracted to join the ruling party. Day after they announced merging their Legislature Party in Rajya Sabha with the BJP, the Upper House Friday recognized four TDP MPs as BJP members, giving a boost to the BJP to strength in the Upper House of Parliament.
The remaining five Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs, three from Lok Sabha and two from Rajya Sabha, Friday met Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu demanding disqualification of the four members who joined the BJP.
As per the statement, the Rajya Sabha Chairman has taken cognizance of the developments relating to the legislature parties of TDP and BJP which happened under section 4 of the anti-defection law, which is a deemed provision.
It also added, The BJP now has a strength of 75 and the TDP two in the Rajya Sabha. The NDA does not have a majority in the Upper House.
3 TDP Lok Sabha MPs Jayadev Galla, Srinivas Kesineni and Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, and 2 Rajya Sabha MPs Ravindra Kumar Kanakamedala and Thota Seetharama Lakshmi said the chairman should disqualify the four RS TDP members.
4 TDP MPs in Rajya Sabha -- Y S Chowdary, C M Ramesh, Garikapoati Mohan Rao, and T G Venkatesh -- met Naidu Thursday and handed him a letter seeking the merger of TDP Legislature Party with the BJP with immediate effect, under Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
While Chowdary was the chairman of the TDP Legislature Party, Ramesh was his deputy.
On this move, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said, "The whole process has been completed today and the Rajya Sabha chairman's office has informed us that these four names have been added to the BJP list. They will now be recognized as BJP members in Rajya Sabha."