UPA's Survival On 22nd July? And Aftermath -2

[ramana]

From Deccan Chronicle, 25 July 2008

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Hyderabad July 24: The Telugu Desam is hesitating to take action against party MP, Mr D.K. Adikeshavulu Naidu, for allegedly violating the party code during the July 22 trust vote though sources said it had “proof” that he had cross-voted. <b>Telugu Desam sources said the party had confirmed it through inquiries with the Lok Sabha secretariat, but the Telugu Desam MP said that he had not crossvoted. “I did not cross-vote, nor did I cross the TD line. I did not vote for the UPA government. It’s a media creation,” Adikesavulu told this correspondent over telephone from Bengaluru.</b> <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

He said he would continue to “sail” with the Telugu Desam but added, “I am in favour of the nuclear deal, because it is in the interests of our country. I support the deal.” <b>He agreed that at one stage he was “pressurised” by the Congress but refused to elaborate.</b> Mr Adikesavulu Naidu took strong exception over reports that he would join the Congress. “They are baseless reports,” he said. Asked whether the Telugu Desam parliamentary leader, <b>Mr K. Yerrannaidu, tried to manhandle him in order to prevent him from crossing the fence,  he said, “it is the height of media creation.”</b>

<b>Asked why the furore when he did not cross-vote, he replied, “the situation was so tense at that time. One of our colleagues (Dr M. Jagannatham) cross-voted and another one (Mr P, Chalapati Rao) got his shirt torn. Even some MPs of opposition parties cross-voted. Some members of the BJP brought currency notes into the House which led to chaos.” </b>Some TD workers staged a dharna in front of the residence of Dr Jagannatham. Some workers of the Congress held a sit-in at the same place to support the MP. <b>Security was beefed up at his residence in New Delhi in the wake of attacks on the houses of MPs who had cross-voted.</b>

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The guy did something but is afraid to go out of TDP.