Revanth's Comment against Kavitha Rocks House

Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Telangana Assembly today as the ruling TRS and Opposition members engaged in a vociferous wordy duel over Telangana TDP member Revanth Reddy allegedly made false propaganda against Nizamabad MP K. Kavitha in the House on Tuesday.

As both sides stuck to their guns, especially the TRS members insisting an unconditional  apology from the TTDP member, the House was thrown into a pell-mell forcing Speaker Madhusudanachary to adjourn the House for a brief period in bid to soothe the ruffled feelings of the members.  However, even after the House reassembled the disturbances continued with the Opposition and ruling party members engaged in heated arguments. With no respite in sight, the Speaker adjourned the House for the day.

The acrimonious drama unfolded in the House when a TRS member raised a point of order and strongly protested against Revanth Reddy making a false allegation and misleading the august House. Women members of the ruling party, especially Konda Surekha and G. Sunitha lashed out at the TTD member for making allegations against a person, who was not a member of the House besides trying to misleading the august body with fictitious charges. Both the women members persisted that Revanth Reddy should tender an unconditional apology and if need be suspended from the House.

It may be mentioned here that during discussion on the question of Intensive Household Survey on Tuesday, Revanth Reddy, while trying to pick potholes in the enumeration, alleged that TRS MP from Nizamabad K. Kavitha had made double entry. Though the comment of the TTD member did not rake up any controversy yesterday, it triggered of trouble today, probably as a tit-for-tat move of the ruing party members for a privilege notice issued against IT Minister K. T. Rama Rao by Revanth Reddy.

During the course of the debate on the budget in the House on Tuesday, the IT Minister was so peeved over the behavior and actions of the TTDP members praising AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that he quipped “There is provision for only one nominated Anglo-Indian member in the Assembly, but there seems to be too many nominated members in the House”. He asked the Telangana TDP members not to behave like AP Government’s nominated members but act as elected representatives of Telangana people.

Again though the sarcastic remark of the TRS minister did not evoke any counter from the TTDP members, probably as an after-thought, Revanth Reddy today moved a privilege notice against the IT minister alleging that his remarks had hurt the sentiments of the Anglo-Indian community as it had belittled them. As soon as the House assembled after a break, the TRS raised a point of order to corner Revanth Reddy for his alleged comment against the Nizamabad MP, who was not a member of the Assembly.

Both TRS members Konda Surekha and Sunitha took strong objection against the alleged false propaganda made against a person, who was not a member of the House and also described it as an affront on the women as a whole. They demanded that the TTDP member should tender an unconditional apology for his remarks against Kavitha. Sunitha went a little further and wanted that Revanth Reddy be suspended forthwith.

This triggered off wordy duel between the TTRS and Opposition members. In the meantime, Congress member Bhatti Vikramarka wondered as to why the debate on the budget was being deviated to other matters. He pointed out that while the House was debating the budget, where was the need for the TRS members to raise a point of order to an unrelated subject under discussion. This further triggered off noisy scenes forcing Finance Minister Etela Rajender to intervene in aghast over the Congress member trying to talk about rules. It further aggravated the situation as members from both sides indulged in charges and counter-charges forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House for a brief period.