44 TDP MLAs suspended for one day

Hyderabad, Aug 11 :

  Forty four  Telugu Desam Party MLAs  were suspended  for one day from the Assembly sessions on Tuesday.  When the  House met  for discussions  on Tuesday morning, the Tdp MLAs  introduced the resolution seeking  the lifting of restrictions on media. The Speaker Kirankumar Reddy turned down the request of Tdp MLAs, but the Tdp MLAs  insisting   that the speaker should take up the issue interrupted the  proceedings time and again.

Irked by these unfortunate incidents, Finance  Minister Rosaiah introduced a resolution  seeking the suspension 44 Tdp MLAs  for three days from the Assembly.  In response  the Speaker suspended these MLAs for one day. The suspended MLAs raising the slogans ``Save Democracy’’ staged a protest in front of the  Speaker’s podium.

Meanwhile the live coverage of  the assembly proceedings were  held up till the suspended MLAs who thronged to the speaker’s podium left the house.]

The suspended MLAs after being forced out of the assembly staged a dharna in front of the Speaker’s chambers. Later after  coming out from the assembly precincts they held a dharna  at Gun Park, shouting slogans a gainst the Government.

Reventher Reddy, a leader of the Tdp speaking on the occasion said `` how far is it justifiable to  suspend an MLA who was not present in the assembly today. ‘’  He further lamented that the Government is not in a position tolerate if you raise any question in the assembly.

The left parties condemned the decision of the Speaker to suspend the Tdp MLAs on Tuesday.  Resenting the act of Speaker, the Left parties staged a walk out from the assembly.