Andhra Pradesh: 16 TDP MLAs Suspended From Assembly

Minister of Finance Buggana Rajendranath Reddy said that TDP leaders are deliberately preventing the meeting from happening.

Andhra Pradesh Minister of Finance Buggana Rajendranath Reddy speaking in the assembly

Source : ABP Desam

Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram suspended 16 MLAs from the House for a day on Thursday. During the discussion on the decentralization of administration, the TDP leaders were repeatedly asked to take their seats. However, they refused to do and mobbed the Speaker's podium holding placards and raising slogans about the increase in the unemployment rate in the state.

Minister of Finance Buggana Rajendranath Reddy said that TDP leaders are deliberately preventing the meeting from happening. Minister Buggana moved a motion to suspend the 16 TDP MLAs from the day's sessions.

Payyavula Keshav, Adireddi Bhavani, V Ramakrishna Babu, Atchhenaidu,  M Ramaraju, Gorantla Buchaiah Choudary, Nimmakayala Chinarajappa, Ganababu, Bendalam Ashok, Bhogeswara Rao, Gadde Ramohan,  Nimmala  Ramanaidu, Gottipati Ravi, Y Sambasiva Rao, Satyaprasad and Dola Balaveeranajenuyulu were suspended from the AP Assembly by the Speaker for one day.

However, TDP National General Secretary Nara Lokesh, State President Atchennaidu, MLAs, and MLCs of the party paid tributes to NTR idols in Venkatapaleo village and later, they protested on the issue of unemployment.

MLAs and MLCs of Telugu Desam marched to the assembly on protesting against the ruling YSRCP government.

Meanwhile, the deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, Kona Raghupathi of the YSRCP, resigned from his position on Thursday. Thammineni Veerabhadram, the speaker of the assembly, has accepted his resignation. It is anticipated that a new deputy assembly speaker would be chosen On Monday.

Bapatla MLA of the YSR Congress Party Kona Raghupathi was unanimously elected as the Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh's 15th Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, June 19, 2019.

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