Buoyed by the interim order of High Court quashing the suspension of MLA R.K. Roja from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for one year, YSR Congress Party has said that its resolve to fight against the injustice is strengthened further and it is a slap in the face of Telugu Desam Party.
"We believe in the legal system and treasury benches trying to gag the voice of Opposition has boomeranged. The interim order has strengthened our resolve further to fight the injustice of the TDP at all forums," YSRCP legislators Roja, U. Kalpana and G. Eshwari told reporters here on Thursday.
“The court has given interim orders which allow me to take part in the Assembly proceedings and after I receive the copy I will attend the session and voice the people’s issues as an elected representative,” Ms. Roja said adding that justice had prevailed.
"The High Court decision is a slap in the face of treasury benches which were bent on gagging the voice of a woman who has been raising issues of public importance. The TDP is now contending that the suspension was not under rule 304 but under 194(3) on hind thought and such tactics will not work," party MLAs said at a separate press conference.
"It is sad that a woman member has been treated in such a shoddy manner and she was subjected to trauma by using such false and flimsy methods," they said.
Soon after the news broke that the High Court had issued interim orders quashing the suspension, the TDP leaders in the Assembly went into a huddle. Legislative Affairs Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu met the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and discussed the fallout of the verdict.
It was decided that an appeal should be made to the division bench immediately. The TDP MLA Bonda Umamaheswara Rao told reporters that judicial intervention was limited in Legislature as per article 212.
