Telangana Rashtra Samithi members were again suspended from the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly on Tuesday for obstructing the proceedings.
As soon as the sitting began at 8.30 am, 15 TRS members, shouting slogans and displaying placards of 'Jai, Jai Telangana,' stormed into the well of the House and surrounded the podium, when the Speaker disallowed their adjournment motion on separate Telangana issue.
Acting quick and fast, Speaker K R Suresh Reddy directed Finance and Legislative Affairs Minister K Rosaiah to move the motion for the suspension of TRS members. After the motion was carried, the TRS members were suspended for the day.
The Speaker asked them to leave the House immediately but when they refused, marshals were called in to evict the members.
The suspended TRS members organised a protest near the members' entrance. Senior TRS legislator Nayani Narasimha Reddy condemned the ruling Congress for getting the TRS members suspended from the assembly for the second consecutive day.
"Using their brute majority, they are resorting to undemocratic and arbitrary actions. It is unfortunate that the legislative affairs minister and the Speaker ordered our suspensions," he said.
Narasimha Reddy alleged that the main opposition Telugu Desam Party also acquiesced with the Congress government's 'repressive action' against the TRS.
"Both the TDP and the Congress are one on this issue. They are opposed to a separate Telangana state and they are all for Samaikya (United) Andhra Pradesh," he said.
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