TDP Telangana MLAs to boycott budget session

Express News Service
First Published : 12 Mar 2011 05:04:17 AM IST
Last Updated : 12 Mar 2011 08:56:31 AM IST

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Telangana MLAs have decided to boycott the entire Budget session of the Assembly.

A decision to this effect was taken at a Telangana TDP Forum (TTDPF) meeting convened in the TDLP office today.

Briefing reporters later, party MLAs M Narasimhulu, S Venugopalachary, D Anasuya and E Dayakar Rao said they had decided to boycott the entire session as there was no possibility of discussing Telangana issues in the Assembly. The TDP MLAs earlier decided to boycott the session till March 10 and wanted to review after the Million March.

Narasimhulu demanded that the Central government should take an immediate decision on the Srikrishna Committee report. A bill favouring division of the state should be introduced in the Parliament, he demanded.

However, according to sources, the real reason behind the Telangana MLAs' decision to boycott the session was the attitude of Nagam Janardhan Reddy. They were wary of the possibility of Nagam creating a ruckus in the House causing embarrassment to them and the party in case they attended the session. On the other hand, they felt that their presence in the Assembly might also send wrong signals to the public at a time when the Telangana MLAs of the Congress and the TRS too were not attending the session.

NAGAM NOT HAPPY: Meanwhile, sources said that Nagam Janardhan Reddy was not happy with the way the Assembly proceedings were conducted today. He was upset with the attitude of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, who visited the Tank Bund before attending the session.

The lengthy discussion in the House on the demolition of statues was also not to the liking of several Telangana TDP MLAs. "There is no time to discuss the Telangana issue or the suicide of more than 600 students in the Telangana region, but there's time to discuss the demolition of statues," a TDP Telangana MLA pointed out.

"We have decided to boycott the Assembly session till the demolished statues were erected again," a Telangana TDP MLA said sarcastically.