Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has rejected the nomination of Dasoju Sravan and Kurra Satyanarayana to the Legislative Council under the Governor’s quota as recommended by the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari, the Governor said the summary of the two sent to her indicated their active participation in politics, corporate and academic sector and did not indicate any special achievements in literature, arts, science, cooperative movement and social service. There was no apparent consideration of the fulfilment of pre-conditions required under Article 171(5) of the Constitution.
Except for the summary, no other details or documents were enclosed or sent to her and the methodology adopted in their consideration for nomination as member of the legislative council were also not enclosed. There were no reports either from the Intelligence or from other agencies indicating that they did not incur disqualification mentioned under Section 8 to 11(A) of the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1951.
