Telangana Rashtra Samiti MLAs forced adjournment of the proceedings of Andhra Pradesh Assembly just seven minutes after the first day of the winter session commenced on Friday morning.
The TRS MLAs stormed the Speaker’s podium holding placards and demanding that the cases filed against students during the pro-Telangana agitation in December last year be withdrawn immediately as per the statement made by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Deputy Speaker Nadendla Manohar, who was in the Chair, announced that the government would make a statement in the House on the issue.
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Minister for Legislative Affairs D Sridhar Babu too assured the TRS members that a statement would be made on the issue and appealed to them to let order prevail in the House.
The TRS legislators, however, remained adamant and raised slogans demanding withdrawal of cases.
As the din continued, the Deputy Speaker adjourned the proceedings for 15 minutes.
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Earlier, the TRS MLAs came in a procession to the Assembly wearing T-shirts with the slogans “Withdraw the cases foisted on students.”
Meanwhile, TDP, CPI and CPi(M) MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu, staged a dharna at Gun Park outside the Assembly premises demanding that the government immediately pay compensation to lakh of farmers whose crops were destroyed due to cyclones and unseasonal heavy rains three times this season.
“Farmers are facing untold miseries this year because of the vagaries of nature. But the government has failed to come to the distressed farmers,” they alleged.
They later came into the Assembly holding the damaged paddy and sugarcane crops in a symbolic gesture to demonstrate the gravity of the problem.