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Ruckus over Ambedkar debate
Andhra Pradesh Assembly was derailed on Friday morning by YSRCP leaders who obstructed the proceedings demanding that the House take up discussion on call money racket issue.
Call money convulsions
- Jagan reiterates his charge that CM and others have links with racketeers
- Alleges govt is hiding the details of the racket to protect the bigwigs of the TDP
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Assembly was derailed on Friday morning by YSRCP leaders who obstructed the proceedings demanding that the House take up discussion on call money racket issue.
Despite Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao and Minister for Legislative Affairs Yanamala Ramakrishnudu assuring the leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy that this being an extraordinary situation, the statement made by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on call money racket would be converted into a full-fledged discussion and the members could discuss till late evening, the YSRC members refused to budge.
They continued with their demand that the House should be extended by two days and discussion on Ambedkar 125th birth anniversary be taken up later. The Speaker adjourned the House for 10 minutes but when order could not be restored in the House, 58 members of the YSR Congress Party were suspended till the discussion on Ambedkar was over.
YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had to face the wrath of Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao for not heeding to his advice to refrain from disrupting the House proceedings and facilitate the House to debate on the 125th birth celebrations of Baba Saheb Ambedkar to be held on April 14 all over the country.
The trouble began soon after the Speaker disallowed an adjournment motion tabled by the YSRCP again on the raging controversial call money racket. The Speaker said that the motion had been disallowed since a discussion on the subject was scheduled for Friday.
Objecting to it, Jagan reiterated his charge against the Chief Minister and others of having links with the racketeers and alleged that the government was trying to hoodwink people and was hiding the details of the racket to protect the bigwigs of the TDP.
Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu repeatedly asserted that the TDP government was prepared for a debate on the controversial issue after the Chief Minister makes a statement soon after the completion of debate on Ambedkar celebrations.
The Speaker pointed out that the debate on the Ambedkar Jayanthi had already commenced on Thursday and hence it should be completed today. Thereafter, the House could debate the call money racket based on the Chief Minister’s statement on the issue. This was opposed by the YSRCP leaders. Jagan along with his suspended members staged a dharna near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the Assembly premises.
