"It's the right of the Governor": Telangana BJP leader supports Soundarrajan’s decision to reject names of two nominated MLCs
Sep 25, 2023
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 26 : Union Minister and Telangana BJP President G Kishan Reddy backed the Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundarrajan’s decision to reject two names recommended by the State Cabinet for nomination as Members of the State Legislative Council under the Governor’s quota.
"It's the right of the Governor...Whatever she has done is good because it is wrong to nominate MLCs who will serve BRS and the KCR family from the Governor's quota. KCR gives tickets to those who serve his family. I want to thank the Governor for the decision," said Reddy.
Soundararajan on Monday rejected the state government’s proposal to nominate BRS leaders Dasoju Sravan Kumar and K Satyanarayana to the Legislative Council under the Governor’s quota.
“My earnest request to the cabinet and the Hon’ble chief minister is to avoid such politically aligned persons from filling up nominated posts under Article 171(5) of the Constitution of India, defeating its objectives and enactment and consider only genuinely eminent persons in the respective field,” she said, in two separate letters addressed to chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, after rejecting the proposal.
The governor said in the letter that the two MLC candidates recommended by the government were unfit for MLC posts under the Governor's quota.
She said that the profiles of nominees do not indicate their special knowledge in Literature, science, art, Cooperative movement, and social services which are mandatory to get elected MLC under the Governor quota.
This is not the first time that the BRS government’s Governor quota recommendations for the Legislative Council were rebuffed by Governor Soundararajan.
She had rejected BRS leader P Kaushik Reddy’s name in 2021, stating that he doesn’t fulfill the requirements under the Governor’s quota, according to the Constitution of India.
She had also cited pending legal cases against him.
The development after the recent tussle between the state government and the Governor over important Bills that included the TSRTC merger Bill in August.
