DMK to move no-confidence motion against Speaker

The DMK has decided to move a no-confidence motion against Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal for his ”faulty conduct of the House proceedings” on Saturday when Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami sought the confidence of the House.

DMK working president and Leader of the Opposition in the legislature M.K. Stalin told journalists at the Secretariat on Tuesday that a letter to move a no-confidence motion against the Speaker was handed over to Assembly Secretary A.M.P. Jamaluddeen and a copy of it was handed over to the Speaker too.

Mr. Stalin said the party took the decision as it believed that the Speaker acted with “ulterior motives” on Saturday. The DMK was planning to meet the President and raise this issue with him. It had moved the Madras High Court seeking to quash the Assembly proceedings of the day the motion of confidence was put to vote.

Replying to a query on the allegation that supply of sugar has been stopped in the public distribution system in Tamil Nadu, he said his party was continuously raising this issue. “We understand that the Chief Minister is also in this same building. Why don’t you go and ask him the same question?” he added.