Hyderabad: The Telangana issue rocked the
Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday with TDP MLAs disrupting the
proceedings leading to its adjournment for the day.
The House was adjourned twice in the morning and later
for the day after TDP MLAs from Telangana region protested the
"brutal" lathicharge on students and journalists at the
Osmania University campus.
Holding placards and raising slogans against the
police action, TDP members rushed to the well of the House as
soon as it assembled for the day's proceedings.
Within a minute, Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy adjourned
the proceedings for 15 minutes but the House resumed only
after an hour.
The Speaker then announced that the adjournment motion
moved by the TDP on the issue was being disallowed, saying
Home Minister Sabita Reddy would make a statement on the
incident later.
However, the slogan-shouting TDP MLAs remained adamant
and did not relent after Chief Minister K Rosaiah assured them
that the government would take appropriate action.
In the din, the Majlis Ittehadul-e-Muslimeen (MIM)
members rose to their feet demanding a statement from the
government on four per cent reservation for Muslims in the
wake of the AP High Court's recent judgement against it.
To this, the Speaker said the issue would be taken up
as a short discussion.
Rosaiah said the state government had already
consulted the Attorney General on moving a Special Leave
Petition in the Supreme Court on the Muslim reservation issue.
Though the MIM members relented, the TDP MLAs kept
shouting denouncing the police action and the House was again
adjourned for 15 minutes.
When the House reassembled, similar scenes were
witnessed leading to its adjournment for the day.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 13:44