Hyderabad, August 26: The ruling Congress and the opposition parties,including the Telugu Desam party blamed each other for the situation leading to frequent disruptions in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, even as Speaker N Kirankumar Reddy appealed to every member both from treasury and opposition benches to extend their co-operation for the orderly conduct of the Assembly before adjourning the House for a brief period.
Intervening during Question Hour when BJP member G Kishan Reddy insisted on putting a host of supplimentaries to his main question relating to Hyderabad development, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy expressed concern over the opposition member’s behaviour putting embarassment to the Speaker who was supposed to regulate the time.
As the opposition members were upset when they were not allowed to put supplimentaries, he felt that the Speaker had no option but allow the House get stranded on a single question upto 1330 hrs.
Even as the Chief Minister was speaking, the TDP members were on their feet and when they refused to resume their seats even after repeated appeals, the Speaker adjourned the House for ten minutes.
Referring to the TDP, the Chief Minister said it was improper to adamantly stall the proceedings by the opposition. ”We have also functioned as an opposition party in the House. We had also raised various issues concerning the public. We used to leave an issue after highlighting it to an extent and go to another issue. Seasoned Parliamentarian M V Mysoora Reddy(now in the TDP) had advised us not to prolong an issue beyond a point”.
He suggested to the Speaker to adjourn the House for a few minutes whenever tempers ran high for emotions to cool down. Whenever required, the Speaker could call the floor leaders to his chambers to arrive at an amicable settlement after adjourning the House even for half-an-hour.
The Speaker made it clear that it was not his intention to hurt any member while handling his task of time regulation.He had respects for each and every member like the same way he had for the Chief Minister.
—–Agencies