The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, is not in a hurry to go to New Delhi to clear the proposed Cabinet reshuffle in the state and is waiting for the city to become normal.
“This is not the right time for me to go to Delhi. It will take some more time and I am waiting for normalcy in the city,” Mr Rosaiah said.
In addition to that, the AP Congress affairs in-charge and Union law minister, Mr Veerappa Moily, is leaving for the US on Wednesday and will return on April 6.
On April 7, Mr Moily is expected to come to the city to chair the first meeting of the AP Congress coordination committee at Gandhi Bhavan.
The Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, will be busy with the Parliament session from April 12. Mr Rosaiah said that he still needs to know the mind of Mrs Gandhi on the reshuffle and act accordingly.
A few days ago the Chief Minister had said that he will go to Delhi soon after the Budget Session is over.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister found fault with some Congress leaders including the Nizamabad MP, Mr Madhu Yashki Goud and MLA, Dr P. Shanker Rao, for rushing to the media without verifying facts. The two leaders had on Monday alleged that some leaders from Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema engineered the riots in the city to destablise the Rosaiah government. They also alleged a hidden hand behind the riots as in 1990. The Chief Minister asked the PCC chief, Mr D. Srinivas, to contact the two leaders and seek clarification on their
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
1st time MLAs want the moon
First-time MLAs have requested the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, to give them Cabinet berths in the reshuffle scheduled for for next month.
The former Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, had kept the first-time MLAs at bay with his guideline that only seniors would be made ministers and freshers should wait for at least a full term and concentrate more on learning.
However, Dr Reddy had made a sole exemption in the case of Mr G. Vinod from Chennur, the son of former union minister, Mr G. Venkataswamy.
Mr Rosaiah is also planning to apply the same guideline for the proposed reshuffle to avoid pressure from juniors.
To pre-empt him, around 92 first-time MLAs of the Congress have prepared a memorandum to be submitted to Mr Rosaiah seeking representation in the Cabinet.
The memorandum, which initially thanked Mr Rosaiah for enhancing the constituency development fund for each MLA,
requested him to consider inclusion of some of the first time elects into Cabinet in order to maintain ‘balance’.
They also requested him to accommodate other freshers as chairpersons of state owned public sector undertakings and corporations.
Party sources said the move by the new MLAs was likely to cause embarrassment to the Chief Minister who is keen on following the YSR line in picking up ministers from the ‘seniors’ category.
“It is not a sin to demand ministership since we are also elected representatives like the seniors,” said one first-time MLA.
The former Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, had kept the first-time MLAs at bay with his guideline that only seniors would be made ministers and freshers should wait for at least a full term and concentrate more on learning.
However, Dr Reddy had made a sole exemption in the case of Mr G. Vinod from Chennur, the son of former union minister, Mr G. Venkataswamy.
Mr Rosaiah is also planning to apply the same guideline for the proposed reshuffle to avoid pressure from juniors.
To pre-empt him, around 92 first-time MLAs of the Congress have prepared a memorandum to be submitted to Mr Rosaiah seeking representation in the Cabinet.
The memorandum, which initially thanked Mr Rosaiah for enhancing the constituency development fund for each MLA,
requested him to consider inclusion of some of the first time elects into Cabinet in order to maintain ‘balance’.
They also requested him to accommodate other freshers as chairpersons of state owned public sector undertakings and corporations.
Party sources said the move by the new MLAs was likely to cause embarrassment to the Chief Minister who is keen on following the YSR line in picking up ministers from the ‘seniors’ category.
“It is not a sin to demand ministership since we are also elected representatives like the seniors,” said one first-time MLA.
