BRS Lets Off Steam at Mock Assembly Session
Only, every discussion on every issue raised mocked the Congress government, with the ‘opposition’ and the ‘ruling’ sides thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Hyderabad:BRS MLAs, who were suspended from the monsoon session of the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Saturday, held a mock Assembly session at their party headquarters — Telangana Bhavan.
The session may have been a mock one, marked by exchanges between the ‘treasury’ and ‘Opposition benches’ — with the two sides comprising the suspended BRS MLAs and two of the party’s Legislative Council members who too were suspended for the mock session, which the party tried to make anything but.
The party went to great lengths to recreate a mock-up of the Assembly hall — in which the sessions are regularly held — down to the Speaker’s podium, and the session was held in all seriousness. Only, every discussion on every issue raised mocked the Congress government, with the ‘opposition’ and the ‘ruling’ sides thoroughly enjoying themselves.
The members in the ‘mock House’ may have had their laughs during the ‘session ’, but the exercise was done in all seriousness in protest against the BRS MLAs’ suspension from the real Assembly.
Former minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav led the mock roles getting to play the chief minister, while Zaheerabad MLA K. Manik Rao was the Speaker. Former minister Palla Rajeshwar Reddy stood in for the irrigation minister, while another former minister Gangula Kamalakar took on the role of the revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy.
The discussions were around issues related to irrigation, power supply to farmers, revenue administration, among others, with charges flying and steam being let off from the ‘opposition’ benches that had K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao among others, while the role playing Chief Minister and ministers used their turns to speak to mock defend the government.
On the day’s event, the BRS said mock Assembly was intended to highlight what it described as the Congress government’s failures in delivering on its electoral promises and addressing issues confronting farmers, irrigation-dependent communities, tribals and the wider public.
