HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu wants the Election Commission to act suo motu against MPs and MLAs who are holding offices of profit.

At a press conference here on Friday, he parried questions whether Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and all MPs holding such offices should face action saying "whoever it may be."

'Sacrifice' ridiculed

Ridiculing the talk of `sacrifice' by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he said that she had resigned out of compulsion as the same law under which Jaya Bachchan was disqualified would be applicable to her. Besides, he said the Government might have failed in its attempt to promulgate an ordinance as President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam might not sign it.

"If it is a sacrifice why should she contest again? What kind of sacrifice is that? I don't understand," he said. He said other Congress MPs and MLAs, including Union Minister T. Subbarami Reddy, should resign in the wake of Ms. Gandhi's action.

No objection to Bill

Mr. Naidu reiterated that his party had no objection if a bill was introduced through consensus and with prospective effect. Asked whether he expected mid-term polls, he said: "There will be a snowballing effect in politics."

To canvass for CPI(M)?

To another question, he said that he would definitely campaign for the CPI(M) in West Bengal if invited.

He criticised the Government for announcing after the Assembly was adjourned that the files on the tendering process of Sripadasagar project would be shown to the Opposition on Saturday. The business listed in the House could have been taken up had it been announced on the floor.

On the reported statement of Major Irrigation Minister P. Lakshmaiah that the papers presented by Mr. Naidu were correct, he said: "What case do they have. It ends the matter. It is clinching evidence and they can't escape."

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