House adjourned twice on irregularities

Assembly Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday was forced to adjourn the House twice as the  Telugu Desam and Praja Rajyam parties stalled the proceedings for one-and-a- half-hour alleging irregularities in the auctioning of liquor trade licences and in the functioning of the Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam Board.

When the House met for the day, both the parties introduced adjournment motions on the irregularities in auctioning liquor licences and functioning of TTD Board.

However, Speaker rejected them citing the time constraints and business agenda.Protesting the Speaker decision to disallow the adjournment motions, the members raised slogans and trooped into the Speaker’s podium.

The PRP alleged loss of antique jewellery belonging to Krishnadevaraya period and irregularities in the TTD Board.

The Bharatiya Janata Party also introduced adjournment motion on the issue of handloom weavers’ suicides. The left members raised house sites to the poor and irregularities in Indiramma housing scheme.

However, the Speaker disallowed all the adjournment motions. As the members did not relent to his appeals, the Speaker adjourned the House.

When the House reassembled, the TDP and PRP members stick to their guns and continued to disrupt the House proceedings. Unable to continue the House business, the Speaker forced to adjourn the House for the second time.