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This has reference to the editorial “Nothing to lose” (March 7) which said: “Thus, after yet another high-pitched but futile effort to raise the issue in the Lok Sabha, the party’s MPs, MLAs and MLCs handed over their resignations to the presiding officers.”

To those who did not follow the proceedings of the Lok Sabha on March 3, 2008, between 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m., the above mentioned line would give the impression that the Lok Sabha members belonging to the TRS were denied an opportunity to raise the matter. The fact is that when the four members belonging to the TRS came into the well of the House immediately after the commencement of the session at 11 a.m., the honourable Speaker asked them to go back to their respective seats to get an opportunity to be on record rather than shout slogans from the well which would not be recorded. After his repeated appeals, the four members went back to their respective seats. Their leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao was given an opportunity by the honourable Speaker to speak. Only after putting on record their reasons for quitting the membership of the Lok Sabha, did Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao and three other members hand over their resignation to the Secretary-General and leave the House.

I am sure, the facts, as mentioned above, will make it obvious to you that the expression “futile effort to raise the issue” is inappropriate in this context.

R.N. Das,

Joint Director (Press and Public Relations), Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi

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