Chaos prevailed in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly as opposition come close to blows

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Vijayawada: Chaos prevailed in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Monday, with members of treasury and opposition benches coming close to blows at the Speaker’s podium on the seventh day of the ongoing budget session.

TDP MLAs came to the house in a procession protesting GO No 1, which prohibits public meetings and rallies on National and State highways and municipal and Panchayat roads in the State. Later, they staged protests holding placards in the House against GO No 1.  Members of the Treasury benches objected to the same.

The Opposition members rushed to the Speaker’s Podium with placards and threw bits of pamphlets at the Speaker. They also tried to touch the Speaker’s body and kept placards on the face of the Speaker. The TDP MLA Dola Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy tried to push the Speaker, at the same time the YSRCP MLAs came to the podium to rescue the Speaker.

YSRCP MLAs also rushed to the Podium to oppose the TDP member, leading to heated arguments and push and pull situation. In the pull and push situation MLA TJR Sudhakar Babu fell down and got minor injury in the arm. The House was adjourned and later all TDP legislators were suspended from the House for the day.

After the suspension of the TDP members, YSRCP Deputy Chief Minister Narayana Swamy and other SC MLAs requested the Speaker to take stringent action against the TDP MLAs over attacked on the podium, by using the SC MLA on the forefront of the attack. Later, Speaker Tammineni Sitaram gave a ruling on the incident that any member who touches the podium will be automatically suspended from the house from 21/03/2023.

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