Last Updated: December 10, 2023, 12:27 IST
AIMIM chief Akbaruddin Owaisi was appointed as the pro-tem speaker of Telangana Assembly. (Facebook/Akbaruddin Owaisi)
The minister’s remark got here after the BJP MLAs refused to take part within the oath ceremony for the brand new legislators within the Legislative Assembly
Telangana Minister and Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday defended the appointment of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s Akbaruddin Owaisi as a pro-tem Speaker of the state Assembly and acknowledged that the “Congress party did what was the right”.
The minister’s remark got here after the BJP MLAs boycotted the oath-taking ceremony of Akbaruddin Owaisi claiming that the Congress violated norms as there have been different senior members within the House.
“Going by seniority in Assembly, I should have been the pro-tem Speaker, the senior most MLA in the Congress party, but since I have taken an oath as a minister, the procedure didn’t allow me to be a pro-tem Speaker. So then we looked at other 6-term MLAs, the most senior MLAs. Akbaruddin Owaisi is the most senior MLA among all the parties. So it is a normal procedure,” Uttam Kumar Reddy was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
Further exemplifying the choice taken below ex-Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s authorities, Reddy stated that this was even adopted throughout the earlier BRS rule. He emphasised that the choice made by the Congress celebration was made purely based mostly on what was proper.
“When the BRS government was there last time, they had an AIMIM MLA as the pro-tem Speaker. This has nothing to do with anything else. We did what was the right thing to do. I cannot comment on the future equation with AIMIM,” the Telanaga minister added.
Why is a Pro-tem Speaker Appointed?
After the elections, a Pro-tem Speaker is appointed to manage the oath of workplace to the newly elected MLAs to preside over the voting and election of the brand new Speaker. As per the protocol, the senior-most legislator within the House is appointed as the Pro-tem Speaker until a Speaker is elected.
BJP Boycotts MLAs Oath Ceremony
Showcasing their protest in opposition to the newly-appointed Congress authorities below Revanth Reddy, all of the eight BJP leaders, who gained within the not too long ago held Telangana elections, refused to take part within the oath ceremony.
“When there are other senior leaders in the new House, why should they pick an AIMIM legislator to do the honour? We will not take oath in front of a person (Akbaruddin Owaisi) who made anti-Hindu comments in the past,” BJP legislator Raja Singh stated in a video message.
