Lok Sabha disrupted over Telangana issue

Fresh protests due to suspension of eight Congress members

PTI | April 30, 2012



Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Monday as TRS members raised slogans for Telangana statehood, a demand which was endorsed by leader of the opposition Sushma Swaraj who asked the government to list the steps taken by it on the issue.

As soon as the House met for the day, TRS members Vijayashanti and K Chandrasekhara Rao trooped to the Well waving banners demanding introduction of a bill to carve out a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh.

The fresh protest came in the wake of suspension of eight Congress members from the region last week for disrupting the proceedings by raising the Telangana issue. TRS members were not present in the House then.

Some BJP members from Bihar boycotted the Question Hour over the issue of setting up of a Central University in East Champaran district in the state.

Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the House soon after Swaraj sought a brief adjournment of the Question Hour to allow leader of the house Pranab Mukherjee to make a statement on on the issue of Telangana since the December 2009 assurance on formation of a separate state.

Earlier, the Speaker continued with the Question Hour as the TRS members squatted in the Well and raised slogans.

As this continued for a while, Swaraj said she was very pained at the sight of members protesting in the Well despite questions being answered and pointed out that eight members have already been suspended on the issue.

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