Won’t take oath before a speaker whose party wants to ‘vanish Hindus’:T Raja Singh

Mangaloretoday News Network

Telangana, Jan 07, 2019 : The newly elected Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh Sunday said that he will not take part in the swearing-in ceremony in presence of pro-tem speaker Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, saying that he doesn’t want to take oath in front of someone whose party wants to vanish Hindus, Yahoonews reported.

Khan is an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) legislator, who will be acting as the pro-tem speaker in the oath-taking ceremony scheduled on January 17.

Calling AIMIM an anti-national party, Singh, the BJP’s lone legislator in the newly-elected Telangana Assembly, said, "I don’t want to take oath in front of a pro-tem speaker whose party wants to vanish Hindus. They never sing Vande Mataram & never say Bharat Mata ki Jai."

Singh’s official FB page, the legislator from Goshamahal said, "Telangana chief minister who is a follower of Nizam (the erstwhile ruler of Hyderabad state) and MIM took a decision at night to make an MIM MLA pro-tem speaker…I will not go to the assembly and take oath in his presence. Other party leaders may go but I will not."

He demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao review the decision to appoint Khan, a senior AIMIM leader, as the pro-term speaker. He will consult legal experts on rules regarding oath-taking, Singh added.

Usually, the senior-most MLA-elect is made the pro-tem speaker and in this case, it was 70-year-old Khan.