Hyderabad: Tension prevailed on the first day of assembly monsoon session began on Monday, when there was a scuffle between the police and BRS MLAs and MLCs, who tried to enter into assembly premises by wearing black T-shirts with slogans printed against Congress 1,000 days ruling and unkept promises. But the police did not allow them to enter the assembly and took them into custody.In the scuffle, BRS working president KT Rama Rao, deputy floor leader T Harish Rao, other MLAs and ex-ministers G Jagadish Reddy, P Sabita Indra Reddy, Sunita Laxma Reddy, and others received minor injuries. In the confrontation, Sabitha Indra Reddy alleged that the police personnel pulled her hair. Sunita Laxma Reddy alleged that women police dragged her saree and broke down over the police behaviour. BRS leaders suffered minor injuries during the incident. The party leaders claimed that KTR’s hand and face were scratched, MLC Yadav Reddy injured his right toe, MLA Rajasekhar Reddy’s leg was bruised, and Sanjay sustained an injury to his hand.BRS condemned the police behaviour and said “Police’s inhuman behavior towards former minister and MLA Sabita Indra Reddy at the assembly! Police dragging her away brutally by her hair without even considering that she is a woman MLA! Is this the respect the Congress govt gives to women?”As the police prevented them from entering into assembly with T-shirts, BRS leaders Harish Rao, Bandari Laxma Reddy, Sudhir Reddy and others removed their shirts and tried to enter with banians and pants. They were taken into custody and shifted them to Telangana Bhavan. The BRS leaders said they would take up the issue with the assembly speaker.Speaking at the Telangana Bhavan Harish Rao questioned the govt’s actions and termed the incident as black day in the history of Telangana. “Is this a legislative assembly or a Kaurava Sabha? Will you pull the sarees of women MLAs? Will you use the police against elected representatives? Will you grab MLAs by the neck and throw them out? What kind of govt is this, CM are you running a police state?,” he asked.Harish Rao alleged that the govt prevented them from speaking in the assembly about the six guarantees, 420 promises, pensions, fee reimbursement, and the problems faced by farmers, teachers and govt employees. He claimed that the Congress govt was afraid that its failures during 1,000 days in office would be exposed and therefore deployed the police against BRS members.He warned the BRS would not spare the police who pulled the sarees of our women members,” he warned. He specifically alleged that police personnel pulled the saree of Sunitha, pressed the throat of Sabitha, and knocked Jagadish Reddy to the ground. He warned that those responsible would not be spared,” he said. Harish Rao also questioned whether the BJP and Congress had entered into a “match-fixing” arrangement to allow only a token discussion on issues such as GO 22-A and fee reimbursement while keeping the principal opposition party out of the proceedings.Harish Rao pointed out that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi had worn black T-shirts while going to Parliament and questioned why BRS leaders were being stopped from doing the same in Telangana.“We are protesting democratically on behalf of the people. We did not say, as Revanth Reddy did, that there are wrestlers who would beat you up. We are protesting democratically against your failures,” he said. He mocked the govt’s decision to conduct discussions without the principal opposition, saying it showed that the government was “running away.”Congress came to power by making a series of false and reckless promises: KTREarlier speaking at Gun Park, in front of the assembly, BRS working president KT Rama Rao said the party made 420 promises, claiming they would be implemented within 100 days. These promises were even given in writing on bond papers.“The Congress made promises assured to fulfil within 100 days, but even after 1,000 days, not a single promise has been fulfilled. That is why KCR directed us to expose the Congress govt during the assembly sessions beginning today. He instructed us to continue questioning the govt on the implementation of its promises for the people, regardless of how the Congress humiliates our party in the assembly,” KTR said.He said conspiracies by the Congress and BJP against our party were nothing new and the party had witnessed many such conspiracies in the past. “On behalf of the people of Telangana, we will raise several questions with the Congress during these assembly sessions. We will ask on behalf of the people: What happened to the promises, and why have they not been implemented? We will question why GO 97 was introduced, alleging that it was brought in to benefit real-estate interests,” he said. KTR demanded the govt to conduct sessions for one month to discuss all the important issues.Ends.
