The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has decided to abstain from voting in the Vice Presidential election scheduled for Tuesday.
The BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao took the decision after discussions with party leaders and directed the party’s Rajya Sabha MPs accordingly. The party has four members in the Rajya Sabha but no representation in the Lok Sabha.
The BRS working president KT Rama Rao announced the party’s decision at a press conference in Hyderabad. He said that though both contesting candidates, NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan and INDIA bloc’s Justice Sudarshan Reddy, were good people, the BRS had chosen to highlight the concerns of Telangana farmers who, he alleged, were being ignored by both the BJP and Congress governments.
“If NOTA were available, we would have chosen it. Since it is not, we are abstaining from voting,” he said.
Linking the decision to the ongoing urea shortage across the state, KTR accused both the BJP-led Centre and the Congress-ruled State of failing to address the problems of Telangana farmers.
The vice-presidential election was necessitated by the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar in July.
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