Speakers plea has no effect on Opposition

HYDERABAD: With the motion on thanks to the governor due by a day, the  Assembly began its sitting Wednesday with hope of getting down to serious business at last. The hope died soon enough.Just as the speaker sat down to begin proceesings, TDP and TRS members were up, each carrying familiar placards and rushing to the podium. The TDP demanded the sacking of ministers whose names are being whispered in connection with the bribes paid by liquor syndicates round the state. And the TRS MLA wanted a resolution on separate statehood passed in the house, and cases against Telangana students. BJP and CPI members too were on their feet in support of the TRS.With both parties resufing to pipe down, the speaker adjourned the House at 9.05 for half an hour and called in the floor leaders for a meeting.It went on for nearly three hours but it was apparent that no deal was reached. For when the House reassembled at 12.10 pm, TDP and TRS members were again at it. The speaker implorations went unheeded.Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy made an intervention which too was in vain. He tried a provocative line: “We are ready to discuss any issue. But by stalling the House, the opposition is proving that it is devoid of issues,” he remarked.“Your behaviour indicates that you are totally happy with all the decisions the government is taking and that you are endorsing them. You don’t have any suggestions to make (to the government),” Kiran said.It did not work. Both TDP and TRS members kept up their protest round the speaker’s podium. Finally, the speaker adjourned the House. no business was done for the second consecutive day.After the adjournment, TDP MLAs trooped into chief minister’s chambers  and submitted to him details their party has collated on the liquor payoffs. It said excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana’s son secured a beer distribution agency for helping out liquor syndicates. And five ministers, including Mopidevi and Botcha Satyanarayana, are hand in glove with the syndicates, and were deservant of sacking, the party said.