Taking objection to Minister K.T. Rama Rao’s ‘objectionable’ comments on Congress leaders quoting a Telugu poem in the Assembly on Saturday, Congress leaders accused Speaker P. Srinivas Reddy of encouraging the Ministers to be abusive rather than controlling the Ministers.
Speaking to reporters after the Assembly was adjourned, CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka, MLAs D. Sreedhar Babu and D. Seethakka said KTR should remember that he was a responsible Minister and he should answer the questions raised by the opposition rather than belittling them. “Referring the Congress leaders as dogs, donkeys and pigs in the House is shameful and we feel why should we come to the House if this was the attitude of the Minister,” Mr. Vikramarka said.
“We raised relevant issues like leasing the ORR lands at such cheap price, denying funds to gram panchayats and submergence of city roads in floods. Are these not facts and not affecting the State’s future,” he asked and said this was not acceptable and never heard of earlier.
