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.
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