Hyderabad : Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday ordered a “comprehensive investigation” into the alleged derogatory remarks against Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar by two BRS MLCs and other related incidents, hours after the assembly suspended all 22 BRS MLAs for entire monsoon session.
Speaker Prasad Kumar announced the suspension of the BRS members after Sridhar Babu moved a motion for the same. On Wednesday morning, 22 BRS MLAs, including party working president K T Rama Rao, were suspended from the Assembly for the remainder of the monsoon session for disrupting the proceedings by entering the well of the House.
The government has decided to punish, as per law, those who insulted the Speaker’s Chair and also the Dalit communities over the reported purification programme, he said. In a related development, the opposition BRS petitioned Telangana Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla over the alleged police high-handedness against its party MLAs, including women members, and the alleged comments made by a ruling Congress MLA wishing for the death of the regional party’s president K Chandrasekhar Rao. The CM also said that a purification programme was allegedly carried out by BRS supporters near the farmhouse of party president K Chandrasekhar Rao where Congress workers and Dalit activists held a protest on September 8 over the ‘abusive’ remarks against the Speaker, who is a Dalit leader. In the memorandum, the BRS alleged that its MLAs were obstructed and assaulted at the assembly gates on September 7 morning instead of being facilitated entry into the legislature. He urged the governor to seek report from the DGP and chief secretary on September 7 events.
The CM said the government would not be “inactive” towards the alleged untouchability, discrimination and purification. Citing provisions of BNS and SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities Act), he said the government has decided to order a probe into those “who made conspiracies and implemented them”. BRS working president K T Rama Rao said the party also apprised the Governor of the “attack” on KCR’s residence by “Congress goondas” on September 8. Rao said the governor assured that he will seek the report from the DPG and the chief secretary.
