HYDERABAD: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday alleged that the Congress had “brutally killed democracy”.
Reacting to the Speaker’s decision, he said it had once again become clear that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress have no respect not only for the country’s highest courts but also for the Constitution.
The former minister said that merely carrying a copy of the Constitution and posing for photographs was not enough. “Rahul Gandhi will be remembered in history as an ineffective leader who failed to respect even the anti-defection law introduced by his own father Rajiv Gandhi when he was the prime minister.”
Rama Rao said that the Speaker acted in a manner that was anti-democratic and unconstitutional, disregarding the provisions of the anti-defection law.
“Even when the defected MLAs themselves have repeatedly and openly stated that they changed parties for development, protecting them clearly exposes the double standards of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress,” he said.
“From the day Chief Minister Revanth Reddy personally went to the homes of BRS MLAs to engineer defections, to today’s Speaker’s decision, the Congress has persistently been mocking the Constitution at every step,” he alleged.
Rama Rao claimed that the Speaker gave in to the pressure exerted by the Congress and also delivered a decision in favour of defected MLAs.
Meanwhile, former minister T Harish Rao said: “Rahul Gandhi’s Save the Constitution slogan has been completely exposed today by the Speaker’s decision. Lowering even constitutional institutions for political gain has become the hallmark of the Congress government led by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.”