Complaint to ACB against BSY, Sriramulu for inducing MLAs
Bengaluru, May 24: KPCC Legal Cell has lodged a complaint against six persons of the BJP including party state president BS Yeddyurappa and MLA B Sriramulu for inducing the MLAs to support the BJP during the floor test in the Assembly.
On Thursday, KPCC Legal Cell general secretary Surya Mukund Raj who visited the ACP head office on Race Course Road in the city, lodged the written complaint against Yeddyurappa, Sriramulu, MLC BJ Puttaswamy, Yeddyurappa’s son Vijayendra, Janardhana Reddy and BJP incharge Muralidhar Rao alleging that they have induced the Congress MLAs during the floor test. Yeddyurappa has taken oath as the Chief Minister on May 17. But as the BJP has no sufficient number of MLAs to prove the majority, the BJP leaders have tried to ‘purchase’ the MLAs by luring them. The KPCC Legal Cell has all documents related to the discussion of BJP leaders with the Congress MLAs. So, the ACB should take this issue seriously and take action against them, he demanded.
The BJP has lured the MLAs of money and power to support it during floor test. The Congress has the voice records of the leaders who spoke to its MLAs. The ACB should consider this charge seriously and register FIR against them under Anti-Corruption Act 1998 and investigate the issue, he demanded.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
