Speaker behaving like Telugu Desam worker, alleges Jagan Mohan Reddy

Hyderabad: YSR Congress president and Opposition leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that the AP Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao was behaving like a Telugu Desam worker and not in a manner that would uphold the dignity of the Chair.

“We take objection to the Speaker's remarks and are moving a no-confidence motion against him. We will also boycott the rest of the Session as the House is not being run on the lines of Parliamentary democracy,” he said.

He added, “Whenever I speak, there are interruptions by at least four members from the Treasury benches who level baseless allegations and try to provoke the opposition to create pandemonium as the ruling party is scared that the actual facts will be exposed by us, putting the government in a tight spot.

He added, “We met the Governor and apprised him of the way the Assembly proceedings were conducted and made it clear that when the voice of opposition is gagged, there is no room to put forth a viewpoint.”

Showing the video clipping of his speech in the Assembly, he said, “TD MLAs are selectively giving video footage to the media.”

The Budget session, which was supposed to be for 40 days, has been curtailed to 17 days and the Treasury benches have a single-point agenda of disrupting the proceedings, he said.

Regarding allegations of stealing question papers while in school, Mr Reddy said that they (TD MLAs) should get the facts right about his school and his academic career. He also said he was living in Bengaluru from 1999 to 2009.