NDA members will decide together on candidate for Lok Sabha Speaker’s post, says TDP
The Opposition has been urging the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United) to seek the post to thwart horse-trading attempts by the BJP.
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The constituent parties of the National Democratic Alliance will take a decision together on its candidate for the Lok Sabha Speaker’s post, the Telugu Desam Party said on Saturday, The Indian Express reported.
“The NDA partners will sit together and decide who our candidate for the Speaker is going to be,” Telugu Desam Party national spokesperson Pattabhi Ram Kommareddy said. “Once a consensus is reached, we will field that candidate and all partners, including the TDP, will support the candidate.”
Kommareddy did not say whether his party would push for its nominee as the Speaker. However, The Indian Express quoted an unidentified source from the Telugu Desam Party as saying that the party had not ruled out the option.
“Like all partners we have a say in selecting the candidate for the Speaker’s post,” the source reportedly said.
The election for the Speaker’s post will take place on June 26. Over the past few days, Opposition parties have been urging the Telugu Desam Party and 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 Friday, Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi said that his party as well as the Telugu Desam Party were “strongly in NDA” and would support the BJP’s...
