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Opposition demands Naidu`s resignation
Hyderabad, Sept 23: Alleging `criminalisation of Andhra Pradesh cabinet`, opposition Congress today demanded resignation of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu owning `moral` responsibility for a `wave of scams rocking the state` and a judicial inquiry by a sitting supreme court judge into the politician-criminal nexus.
Hyderabad, Sept 23: Alleging `criminalisation of Andhra Pradesh cabinet', opposition Congress today demanded resignation of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu owning `moral' responsibility for a `wave of scams rocking the state' and a judicial inquiry by a sitting supreme court judge into the politician-criminal nexus.
The multi-crore fake stamp paper racket involving ruling
TDP MLA, C Krishna Yadav rocked the assembly today, with
Congress seeking to put the government on the mat for
`deliberately scuttling investigations into the biggest scam
that the country had ever seen'.
"Yadav's arrest shows that criminal elements have
penetrated into the government. It is only the tip of an
iceberg and there are doubts over involvement of several
ruling party bigwigs in the scandal," Congress member K R
Suresh Reddy said while initiating a debate on `criminalisation
of politics and scams with specific reference to fake stamp
paper racket'.
The issue triggered a furore, with treasury benches and opposition trading charges, questioning each other's political morality and seeking to dig each other's criminal past. The government came in for sharp attack over continuance of Housing Minister P Ramasubba Reddy in the cabinet despite facing charges in a twin murder case and the high court passing strictures against him.
"The refusal to remove him (Reddy) from the cabinet shows the level of political degradation and scant respect for the judiciary," the Congress member said and demanded that Naidu should 'step down on moral and ethical grounds'.
Bureau Report
The issue triggered a furore, with treasury benches and opposition trading charges, questioning each other's political morality and seeking to dig each other's criminal past. The government came in for sharp attack over continuance of Housing Minister P Ramasubba Reddy in the cabinet despite facing charges in a twin murder case and the high court passing strictures against him.
"The refusal to remove him (Reddy) from the cabinet shows the level of political degradation and scant respect for the judiciary," the Congress member said and demanded that Naidu should 'step down on moral and ethical grounds'.
Bureau Report