INDIA bloc will support TDP if it fields candidate for Lok Sabha Speaker post: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP

The Bharatiya Janata Party will break the parties that support it, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut claimed.

INDIA bloc will support TDP if it fields candidate for Lok Sabha Speaker post: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP

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Every member of the Opposition INDIA bloc will try to extend support to the Telugu Desam Party if it fields a candidate for the Lok Sabha Speaker’s post, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut said on Sunday, PTI reported.

The election for the post of the Speaker to the Lower House of Parliament will take place on June 26. The Opposition parties have been urging the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal (United) – both members of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance – to seek the Speaker’s post to thwart horse-trading attempts by the BJP.

On Sunday, Raut told reporters that the election for the Speaker’s post will be crucial. He claimed that the BJP will break the parties that support it, including the Telugu Desam Party, the Janata Dal (United), Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Jayant Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal, if it gets the post.

Raut alleged that the BJP betrays the people who support it.

He also said that the Opposition parties must get the Deputy Speaker’s post according to the rule. The National Democratic Alliance government is not a stable regime, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader claimed.

Raut’s remarks came a day after Telugu Desam Party national spokesperson Pattabhi Ram...

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