If TDP can move no-confidence motion, why can’t the AIADMK: Seeman

Actor-director-turned-politician and president of Naam Tamizhar Katchi (NTK) Seeman has wondered why the ruling AIADMK, which has as mny as 37 MPs in the Lok Sabha, can’t move a no-confidence motion in Parliament against the BJP-led Centre when parties such as Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress could do so.

Political parties in Tamil Nadu have been indulging in various forms of protest to condemn the Centre’s delay in setting up the Cauvery Management Board as directed by the Supreme Court in its verdict delivered in the second fortnight of last month while taking up appeals filed by Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala against the 2007 verdict of the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal.

Speaking to newsmen this afternoon at Nagercoil, Seeman wondered what could have been the ‘strategy’ of the BJP-led Centre in delaying the inevitable constitution of a Cauvery Management Board or a supervisory council to supervise distribution of Cauvery water amongst the Southern States.

“It is a matter of life and death for the Tamils but for the BJP, it is another issue to play (political) games with the sentiments of the State’s people.  When TDP and YSRC could move a no-confidence motion for not getting special status to Andhra Pradesh, why did the AIADMK not attempt to move a no-confidence motion against the BJP-led Centre on the Cauvery issue?” Seeman wondered.