MLCs recall student days amid a cheerful atmosphere

HYDERABAD: The Legislative Council became a classroom on Sunday and it provided lighter moments from regular politics, when many members recalled their school and college days. They called each other as bench-mates and seniors in politics and student days. Members went down the memory lane after Banda Prakash Mudiraj was elected deputy chairman of the council.

Vani Devi said that they both belong to one caste, which runs educational institutions. She and Kalvakuntla Kavitha said that Mudiraj was a bench- mate in the council till now. They urged him to give priority to women members during meetings.

Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said that usually a classroom’s first bench students become officials while those in the last bench excel as politicians. “Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, municipal minister K.T. Rama Rao and I were also first bench students in school days but succeeded as politicians”, Palla recalled.

Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao said that Mudiraj was his senior in school days. Baswaraj Saraiah said that Mudiraj was a schoolmate and they both were elected municipal councilors as independent candidates in 1981.

Recalling his school days, Farooq Hussain said “during the 1969 Telangana movement, police took me into custody, when I was a Class IX student. It was with the help of elders that I was released from police custody.”

Ministers K.T. Rama Rao, V. Prashanth Reddy, Mahamood Ali, S. Niranjan Reddy, apart from V.G. Goud and M.S. Prabhakar Rao also spoke.