Hyderabad: Prajakutami leaders met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Monday and submitted a representation officially stating that their pre-poll alliance should be considered as a single block.
This was to preclude the Governor from inviting the TRS and creating a Goa-like situation where the single largest party was not invited to form the government.
TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said when there is hung Assembly, the single largest party should be called to form government. “Many judgements of the Supreme Court also say the same thing. According to this, the pre-poll alliance of the Congress, TD, TJS and CPI should be considered as a single entity and the Governor should invite us if the Praja-kutami emerges as the single largest.”
He said the Prajaku-tami leaders had submitted to the Governor, copies of the documents that were given to the Election Commission and the Common Minimum Programme released by the alliance before the polls.
“This is just a precautionary measure in case of a hung scenario. We are confident of winning the election. But, if this situation arises tomorrow (Tuesday), it will be late to meet the Governor. So, we have decided to meet him today (Monday),” Mr Reddy said.
TJS president Prof. M. Kodandaram said, “If the Prajakutami parties together get a majority, the Governor should know that all the parties are in alliance. So we made a representation to the Governor.”
