Jagan Meets Governor Seeking Special Assembly Session

YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday called on Governor E S L Narasimhan seeking his intervention in convening a special session of the A P Legislative Assembly to pass a resolution against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

"We reiterate that a special session of the Assembly should be convened before the draft bill comes to Assembly for its view on the issue of the bifurcation of the State, and to table a resolution against the division in the larger interest of people in order to safeguard the prospects of the future generations," Jagan said in his memorandum submitted to the Governor at Raj Bhavan.

Jagan recalled that representations were made last month to the Governor and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking convening of an Assembly session ahead of the Cabinet note.

"The Assembly session would have enabled the elected representatives and parties to express their respective stands and also to adopt a resolution against the division of process which would have stalled this arbitrary division," he said.

"As the cabinet note has been approved now and the pace of the division process has increased with the Group of Ministers (GoM) taking stock of the situation in its first sitting and chalking out an action plan to expedite the splitting of the State ignoring the popular mood of the State, we once against seek your High office to intervene and convene the Assembly to discuss the issue threadbare and table a resolution against the division of the State before the draft bill is prepared," Jagan appealed to the Governor.

Jagan said that the outcome of the Assembly session would be in accordance with the mood of the House, and that the majority will should prevail.

"Once again we request you to convene a session to pass a resolution against the bifurcation so as to mount pressure on the Central Government to not go ahead against this injustice, and to display our resentment to the entire nation before it is too late. This injustice for the sake of a few votes and seats ignoring the tradition of having an Assembly resolution in place is not right," he said.

"As a responsible political party having 18 members in the Assembly and two members in the Lok Sabha, and in the interest of 60 per cent of the State's population that has expressed its resentment through various forms of protests for more than 70 days, we once again urge you to intervene and direct the State Government to convene a special session to facilitate passing a resolution against the division before it is too late," the YSRCP President said. (INN)