Telangana: 15 TRS MLAs suspended for 3rd day

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Hyderabad, Aug 30: Fifteen members of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti were suspended from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for the third day today by Speaker K R Suresh Reddy for disrupting the proceedings of the House for the sixth consecutive day.

The TRS legislators demanded a debate on their adjournment motion and passing of a resolution recommending the Centre to create a separate Telangana state.

The TRS members, who refused to leave the House despite the suspension and a direction from the Speaker to leave, had to be carried out by marshals.

Soon after the House met for the penultimate day of the ongoing monsoon session, the TRS members holding placards trooped into the well, climbing steps leading to the Speaker's chair and raised pro-Telangana slogans.

Urging the TRS members to take their seats and facilitate a meaningful discussion, the Speaker assured them that a debate would be taken up on the Telangana issue if they allowed the House to function normally. However, adamant TRS members wanted their adjournment motion to be taken up immediately with an assurance to pass a resolution on Telangana. Though Mr Reddy said he would have to name the members disrupting the proceedings, they did not budge.

''If public issues cannot be discussed, public money cannot be wasted like this,'' the Speaker implored upon the members. When all attempts to restore the order failed, he directed Minister for Legislative Affairs Rosaiah to move the motion under sub rule 2 of Rule 300 of the Assembly Rules to suspend the members named by him.

Mr Rosaiah, while moving the motion, said that he was doing so with pain as the House was compelled to suspend his colleagues for the third consecutive day.

The motion was later carried by a voice vote.

UNI

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