Hyderabad, August 03: Eight members of the main Opposition Telugu Desam Party were suspended for two hours for disrupting the proceedings of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly during the Question Hour today.
When Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was on his feet, clarifying the Government’s stand on the Rs 12123-crore Metro Rail project, the TDP members, who walked out of the Assembly led by leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu over the Metro rail issue, returned to the House and disrupted the speech.
After repeated appeals to the TDP members not to violate the ”conventions and practices” of the House by returning to the House before the reply to the Question was over, Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy named the members. Legislative Affairs Minister K Rosaiah moved the resolution for their suspension, which was adopted by voice vote.
A high drama was witnessed as the TDP members refused to leave the House. Amid pandemonium, the agitated TDP members were bodily lifted out of the House by the Marshalls.
Later on an appeal from the TDP, the House adopted a resolution, revoking their suspension soon after the Chief Minister’s reply.
—-Agencies