What is YCP’s plan for Budget Session?

After the YCP suffering a drastic defeat and confined to a meagre 11 seats, the party’s status has fallen in a jeopardy. Though the party boss and former CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy insisted that his party be identified as the prime opposition party in the Assembly and even shot out a missive to the Assembly Speaker on the same, there has been no response from him so far.

The first Assembly session, after the TDP government has taken charge, is just 20 days away and there is no clarity about YCP’s status in the Assembly. The YCP has been demanding the prime opposition status but Assembly affairs in-charge Payyavula Keshav had made it clear that it is not possible and that Jagan will just be identified only as the YCP floor leader.

It is after this clarity from Payyavula that Jagan wrote a letter to the Assembly Speaker. There had been prolonged parley on the issue with legal experts, according to the TDP leaders. There are no fixed rules for identifying a party as the major opposition party except the numerical strength in the Assembly, according to the legal experts.

It is learnt that there is no problem if the government acted in either way, which means there would be no issue even if the status is given or denied. For this, the legal experts also mentioned about the Parliament affairs in 2014 and 2019. For the last 10 years, Modi had ruled the nation without a major opposition occupying their benches in the Parliament.

Even the court had no objection to this situation.

This means there would be no use even if the YCP boss moved the court on the issue.

Now, it has to be seen what role would the YCP carve for itself in the upcoming Assembly budget session.