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TDP initiates no confidence motion

S. Harpal Singh

Party has used the motion to consolidate the position of
some leaders

ADILABAD: Just as local body institutions in Adilabad district complete two years of term, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has initiated no confidence motions in many of the bodies headed by its own functionaries. Ever since G.O. 200 was issued by the State government in April 1998, the party has used no confidence motion as a tool to consolidate the position of the party leaders who are at the helm of the respective units.

According to the G.O. that is part of the AP Panchayat Raj Act 1994, a no confidence motion can be taken up only once during the entire tenure of the local body institution that too only after completion of two years. The G.O. also lays down that a two thirds quorum is needed for a no confidence to succeed which makes the task rather difficult. The prospects of an incumbent getting dislodged from the seat because of a no confidence motion is bleak.

Adilabad Zilla Parishad, one of the only two institutions in the State where TDP is in majority, is the latest in the series to be subjected to the familiar ploy of the TDP. A notice of intention to make a no confidence motion has been given by TDP Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) members.

“As intended the motion will fail. It will thus eliminate any future threat of the chairman being dislodged by the Congress,” revealed a senior TDP leader. The TDP has 33 ZPTC members in a house of 52 while Congress and TRS have 17 and two respectively. A two third quorum is a seemingly difficult job under such condition. It was in 1999 that the strategy was first used to secure the positions of the Jainad and Jaipur Mandal Parishad presidents who had faced the danger of being unseated by Congress. In 2003, it was Jainad, Tamsi, Talamadugu and Adilabad where the no confidence motions came to the rescue of the TDP incumbents. This year, the notice of intention of making a no trust motion has already been given in the Tamsi, Indervelli, Ichoda and Gudihatnoor MPs. The party is likely to take up the motions in Talamadugu and a few other MPs where it is in power.

Otto Von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of German Empire was not off the mark when he said “politics is the art of the possible.”

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