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AIADMK crisis: After DMK, Congress in TN demands floor test

Last Updated 23 August 2017, 09:15 IST
A day after the opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu demanding floor test in the house, its ally Congress on Wednesday urged the governor CH Vidyasagar Rao to direct Edappadi K Palaniswami to prove his majority in the Assembly after 19 AIADMK MLAs supporting "ousted" leader  TTV Dhinakaran withdrawing their support to the chief minister.
 
"Consequent upon the identical letters given by 22 members of the legislative assembly expressing lack of confidence in the chief minister, an unprecedented constitutional crisis erupted in which the present government headed by Palaniswami has lost the majority", leader of Congress legislative party K R Ramasamy said in a letter to the governor.
 
He said any inordinate delay in asking the chief minister to prove his majority in the instant case will pave the way for a continuance of an unconstitutional government and it will destabilise the democratic norms.
 
"It will also give room for evil practice of horse trading occurred when the incumbent chief minister proved his majority on an earlier confidence motion", he alleged.
 
Requesting the governor to direct Palaniswami to prove his majority in the Tamil Nadu Assembly immediately, Ramasamy said, "Kindly uphold the constitutional norms and the parameters laid down in the famous judgement in SR Bommai case by the Supreme Court".
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(Published 23 August 2017, 09:13 IST)

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