It is customary for the Assembly to give some kind of gifts to the MLAs after every Budget Session.
This time, they were given iPads and a gift hamper by the Tribal Cooperative Society consisting of Araku Coffee.
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It is known to our readers that YSR Congress MLAs have boycotted the house in protest of not giving Opposition Leader Status to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The other day, Speaker Ayyannapathrudu flagged how some YSR Congress MLAs are signing the attendance register of the Assembly and not coming to the house.
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Article 190(4) of the Constitution of India states that a member of a state’s legislature can be declared absent if they are absent from all meetings for a period of 60 days without permission.
To escape the disqualification, Jagan and ten other YSR Congress MLAs attended the Governor’s Address.
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However, the Speaker announced that attending the Governor’s Address is not considered in the Attendance.
So, Seven YSR Congress MLAs have come up with this plan of signing the register so that they are technically present in case it has come down to disqualification.
One of these MLAs Tatiparthi Chandrasekhar tried to come up with a reason for signing.
He said they were trying to ask questions in the Assembly and the staff asked them to sign before submitting the question.
He tried to give a color that they signed only to the greater cause of their constituencies.
But the Speaker announced in the house that except for Jagan, all the YSR Congress MLAs were taking their salaries.
Now it has come to light that these MLAs have collected the iPads and the Gift Hampers. They also collected MLA Stickers for their cars.
While four MLAs directly went to the Assembly and took them by signing themselves, four of the MLAs have them collected by the staff of the YSR Congress office in the Assembly.
Probably, they will come up with an explanation that they took the iPads to serve the people of their constituencies better.
