Telugu Desam Party MLA’s, MLCs staging protest in opposition to G.O. No.1 exterior the Assembly premises, at Velagapudi, in Guntur district, on March 20.
| Photo Credit: G. N. Rao
The YSR Congress (YSRC) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLAs got here to blows in the Legislative Assembly on March 20, throughout a protest by the latter in opposition to G.O. Ms.No.1 by way of which the federal government imposed curbs on political conferences on public roads.
Soon after the Question Hour began at 9 a.m., TDP MLAs rose from their seats and shouted slogans in opposition to the G.O. and went on to the Speaker’s podium and picked up an argument with him and threw items of the G.O. throughout whilst Ministers Ambati Rambabu and Audimulapu Suresh and others strongly deplored their (TDP MLAs’) behaviour.
As the TDP MLAs continued to indulge in a verbal duel with Speaker Thammineni Seetharam, YSRC MLA T. J. R. Sudhakar rushed on to the Speaker’s podium and scuffled with TDP MLA D. Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy. Mr. Swamy fell down in the melee and it resulted in a bigger skirmish between the ruling and Opposition MLAs. The Speaker went into his chamber when the YSRC and the TDP MLAs confronted bodily.
Former MLA Vellampalli Srinivas and the TDP MLA Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary entered right into a heated argument in the nicely of the House and had been about to have an altercation, when marshals got here in and restrained the warring MLAs.
The marshals stood like a wall between the YSRC and the TDP MLAs as they hurled abuses at one another. The TDP MLAs continued their protest by squatting on the ground close to their allotted seats.
