Governor justifies holding back nomination proposal
The Hindu
‘Need time to verify Kaushik Reddy’s social service credentials’
Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has justified her decision to hold back a resolution referred to her by the State Cabinet seeking nomination of a TRS leader P. Kaushik Reddy as a member of the Legislative Council under Governor’s quota saying she needed time to study the proposal. “I am taking sometime. I can take some more time” in the matter she said replying to questions on the reason for keeping the file pending. She also said she was within her rights to take some more time. Mr. Kaushik Reddy is a cricketer-turned-politician who unsuccessfully contested the last Assembly elections from Huzurabad constituency as a Congress candidate and polled over 60,000 votes. He lost to former Minister Eatala Rajender, who is likely to be the BJP candidate in a byelection to the constituency shortly.
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