BRS boycott of orientation programme sparks criticism
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2024-12-11 16:39 GMT
Hyderabad: The boycott by BRS MLAs and MLCs of the first orientation programme for the legislators in the last 10 years in Telangana came under fire on Wednesday with legislative affairs minister D. Sridhar Babu pointing out that the two-day programme was not a Congress party event but meant for all legislators.
“The BJP MLAs are here, and so is the Communist MLA. This programme is to provide information and training on rules, procedures, responsibilities and rights of legislators,” Sridhar Babu explained on the sidelines of the two-day event that began at the MCR HRD Institute in the city on Wednesday.
Earlier, in his address during the inaugural session, Sridhar Babu said he was urging the BRS legislators to attend the programme as it is designed to benefit them and help them become better at what people expect them to do in the Houses.
Meanwhile, Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, responding to a question on BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao’s allegations that the Speaker was acting unilaterally and that was the reason for their boycott, said as a senior MLA who has been in the House, it was not correct on Rama Rao’s part to level such accusations. “KTR should not have adopted this attitude. It is not fair on his part to say the things he said,” the Speaker said.
On Rama Rao saying his party will remove the new Telangana Talli statue from the Secretariat once BRS returns to power, Sridhar Babu brushed away the claim saying, “KTR is daydreaming about coming back to power. We will be in power for 10 years.”