Telugu Desam MP: 'Our no-confidence motion will fail'

July 19, 2018 16:24

Even though his party will go on the offensive against the Narendra Modi government during the no-confidence vote on Friday, Telugu Desam Party MP from Anantapur, Jutur Chinna Divakar Reddy, will not be among those banging the benches or applauding his fellow parliamentarians for their efforts.

In fact, the 75-year-old MP from Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur constituency is candid enough to admit on record that the TDP's no-confidence motion will fail to muster enough votes to defeat the government on the floor of the house.

"How can they succeed? They will not!" Reddy said over the phone.

Explaining the rationale behind the TDP's move, he said, "They (the TDP) want to use it (the no-confidence vote) as a platform to explain the injustice done by Mr Narendra Modi to Andhra Pradesh. That's all."

Reddy, who said earlier that he was "fed up" of the no-trust vote, refused to elaborate on his comment but repeatedly blamed "polluted politics" as the reason why he was skipping the Lok Sabha session on July 20.

The TDP MP said, "I have been in public life for more than 40 years. I am 75 now. In these circumstances I don't want (to attend the no confidence motion session)."

"I want to tell you one thing. Government is a continuous process. This government promised so many things but did nothing for Andhra (Pradesh). There are so many Cabinet resolutions, is it not Mr Narendra Modi's duty to implement all those things? Is it not his duty to implement the benefits accorded to the state under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014?" he asked.

Reddy, though, was very forceful when asked if Modi has failed the people of Andhra Pradesh. His answer: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

In response to reports that he is upset with party boss and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu over his cold shoulder to his candidature from the Anantapur Lok Sabha constituency in 2019, he laughs loudly and says, "They are all my good friends and I don't have any grouse against anybody."

-- Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com

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