The Congress party after facing humiliation defeat in the recently concluded Telangana elections seems to be running out of issues to attack chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The Congress has now come up with a flak slamming TRS citing violation of Constitution for not appointing minimum ministers in the cabinet.
At a press conference, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Spokesperson Dr Sravan Dasoju said, “The Article 164 (1A) says that the total number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers in a State shall not exceed 15 percent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly of that State, provided that the number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister in a State shall not be less than twelve. However, violating the constitutional mandate, the present government as of now consists of only the Chief Minister and Home Minister”.
“There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister as the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion”. Hence, in the absence of a full-fledged council of ministers, even the role of Governor has become deceased and defunct in Telangana, as there is none to aid and advice the Governor,” he added, citing Article 163 (1).
Arguing further, Sravan Dasoju said, “There are 33 departments and 289 organisations in the government of Telangana and it is humanely impossible for one person to make decisions and monitor their execution. Without a minimum number of ministers, we are not only curtailing the functioning of the government, but also doing disservice to the people who participated in democratic elections and voted. How can such a small cabinet take any decision?”
