Unruly scenes prevailed at the Zilla Parishad general body meeting here on Saturday evening, with heated exchange of words between the YSRC Nagari MLA, R.K. Roja and the Telugu Desam leaders.
As and when the general body meeting commenced, the TDP leaders observed that farmers in the State were happy with the crop loan waiver scheme, and people were benefited with a plethora of welfare schemes.
Ms. Roja termed the contention of the TDP leaders as utterly false.
“Come and visit our Nagari constituency. Farmers in the entire region were a worried lot with failure of sugarcane, groundnut and mango plantations. The two cooperative sugar factories at Renigunta and Chittoor are now defunct, throwing the sugarcane growers in utter dismay,” she said.
She said that the farmers were struggling to pay interest to the moneylenders. Ms. Roja was enraged when TDP MLA G. Shankar Yadav (Tamballapalle) tried to stop her, leading to heated arguments. The Nagari MLA said that she was ready to prove the discontentment among farmers and all sections of people in any constituency due to ‘anti-poor’ policies of the TDP government.
The MPTC and ZPTC members of the TDP surged ahead and sought Ms. Roja to keep quiet.
Seeing the TDP cadres moving menacingly at her, Ms. Roja came out of the hall, only to be obstructed by the TDP mahila activists, displaying placards against her.
She said the TDP leaders planned the protest even before the commencement of the general body meeting. Calm returned to the venue, after the exit of Ms. Roja.
Tight security arrangements
YSRC ZP floor leader Venkata Reddy Yadav condemned the TDP leaders’ threatening attitude towards the Nagari MLA, and said that the YSRC would chalk out an action plan to take the issue to people.
Meanwhile, tight security arrangements were made at the venue.
