Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Tuesday adjourned the House for the day finally after two brief adjournments when the TDP members continued to stall the proceedings demanding sacking of six ministers who were served notices by the Supreme Court.
After the second adjournment, the House reassembled at 12.30 pm and immediately the TDP members rushed to the Speaker’s podium and exhibited placards demanding removal of six “corrupt” ministers from the cabinet.
The Speaker provided mike to CPI (M) legislator Julakanti Ranga Reddy when the agitating members resumed their seats following his appeal. Julakanti felt that resignations of the six ministers should be left to their discretion. But, the 26 Government Orders and files on which the Apex Court issued notices to six ministers should be placed on the table of the Speaker and the House should discuss the matter.
They were not secret documents, he pointed out. He also charged the government with trying to escape from the issue on the pretext of sub-judice.
TDP member Ashok Gajapathi Raju said that the government was alone responsible and answerable to the people. In the alleged irregularities, no GO was cancelled and no money was recovered, he added. Either the tainted ministers should resign voluntarily to their posts or the Chief Minister should sack them from his cabinet, he demanded.
When Legislative Affairs Minister D Sridhar Babu rose to give a clarification on behalf of the government, the TDP members again rushed to the podium and raised slogans demanding removal of six ministers from the cabinet.
Amid noisy scenes, Sridhar Babu continued his speech. He said that after dismissal of a petition by the CBI Special Court and High Court, an individual filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court asking why the ministers should not be probed in the cases in which IAS officers were arrested and grilled by CBI. The Supreme Court has decided to issue notice on the scope of inquiry into the matter, he said, adding that after due deliberations, the Supreme Court would come to a conclusion.
The government would respond after the ministers received the notices. He said that the Opposition members were making a hue and cry without studying the contents of the Supreme Court notice. It was not proper on the part of the TDP members to allege that the ministers committed mistake. “We are consulting with legal experts and the matter was sub-judice. The members should not talk about the issue lest it might influence the ongoing inquiry.
Alleging that the TDP was trying to politicize the issue and indulging in mudslinging against the government, the Minister pointed out that TDP Chief Nara Chandrabababu Naidu had not resigned to the post Leader of Opposition when he received notices from the court. The Chief Minister has already made it clear that the government would not go for stay on any case in the court, he added.
When the TDP members failed to pay heed to his request to leave the podium and resume their seats, the Speaker adjourned the House to meet at 9 am on March 14.
–Source: Flashnewstoday