BJP Floor leader G. Kishan Reddy came in for severe criticism in the Telangana Assembly on Tuesday for being present in the House despite wanting the question listed in his name to be postponed and creating a ruckus during question hour.
The first question pertaining to water problems under the GHMC limits was in the name of Kishan Reddy. However, after wanting the question to be postponed, he was present in the House and created a ruckus along with the Congress members with regard to an adjournment motion tabled separately by both the parties on the issue of unemployment.
Speaker Madhusudana Chary reminded that as decided in the BAC earlier, adjournment motions would be taken up only after completion of question hour and wanted the protesting members to allow the proceedings to continue, there was no respite in the slogan shouting by both the Congress and BJP members.
However, after repeated appeals by the Chair and the Ministers, the Congress members relented, though the BJP members continued their slogan shouting more vigorously. Minister for Roads & Buildings Tummala Nageshwar Rao and later Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari pointed out that the first question for the day was listed in the name of Kishan Reddy. Though he wanted the same to be postponed, the BJP leader was very much present in the House and was disturbing the proceedings.
The Speaker said the State government would discuss any issue being raised by the members and wanted the BJP leader to restore calm in the House and allow the completion of the question hour. He also had a dig at BJP leader by quipping that he should first question the BJP at the Centre as to how many jobs it had filled till now.
IT Minister K. T. Rama Rao explained that BJP leader Kishan Reddy had telephoned to him and informed about postponing his question regarding water crisis in GHMC limits. Normally, if a member seeks postponement of a question, he is deemed to be busy outside and would not be in a position to be present in the House. Surprisingly, Kishan Reddy was very much present in the House after having wanting his question to be postponed. He seemed to have wanted the question to postponed only to create disturbance in the House, KTR observed and quipped that probably the BJP leader had nothing to ask as there was no water crisis under GHMC limits. He appealed to the BJP members to remain calm and enable completion of the question hour.
However, the unrelenting BJP members continued to disturb the proceedings even while the House was engaged in the question hour and the Congress member T Jeevan Reddy was posing supplementary questions with regard to the issue of MSP for farmers. At one stage, BJP member C. Ramachandra Reddy even tried to pull the mike as Jeevan Reddy was speaking. The Speaker took strong objection at this and warned the BJP member that he was not acting in dignified manner and belittling the decency and decorum of the House.
Despite repeated appeals by the Chair as well as the ministers, the BJP continued raising slogans in the House. However, the Speaker stuck to his guns and did not yield to the BJP demands and proceeded with the question hour. (NSS)