Governor should intervene in Andhra govt crisis: BJP

The Andhra Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday urged the state Governor N D Tiwari to intervene to resolve the crisis over the continuance of K Rosaiah as the state chief minister.

"The governor should convene the assembly session immediately and direct Rosaiah to prove his majority on the floor of the House, as there was a total chaos on the issue," said BJP senior leader and former Union minister Vidyasagar Rao.

After the demise of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash early this month, there was a political crisis in the state which is now leading to constitutional crisis, he said.

The governor should take an initiative to resolve the crisis as the Congress high command is silent on calling its legislative party meeting in the state, the BJP leader said. The state is facing a peculiar situation, as most of the cabinet ministers who were loyal to late Rajasekhara Reddy have been demanding that his son Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy be made chief minister and that Rosaiah was a caretaker chief minister, Rao said.

As there was no mention of caretaker or temporary chief minister in the Constitution, there was a need to define and codify the subject in the Constitution, as no state in the country faced such situation, he said.

In the absence of mentioning of caretaker or temporary chief minister, the present development in Andhra Pradesh would become a new precedent, Rao observed.