Opposition voice being gagged: YSRCP

Criticising the way Assembly proceedings are being conducted, YSR Congress has said the main opposition is being denied its right to raise the voice of the people.

“The assembly proceedings are being conducted in a one-sided manner with the Chair siding with the treasury benches and denying mike to the main opposition party,” YSRCP MLAs K Rajanna Dora and K Sanjeevaiah told reporters in Hyderabad on Sunday.

The Speaker has been behaving like a TDP legislator and not in accordance with the august position he holds. When the TDP ministers and MLAs are targeting the Leader of Opposition and are going overboard, he is mum and takes no action nor expunges the unsavoury remarks from the record.

On the other hand, he asks the opposition Leader and members to withdraw the remarks at the slightest impatience from the treasury benches, which is not in the true spirit of parliamentary democracy, they said.

When the law and order issue comes up for debate, TDP contingent resorts to baseless allegations and speak out of the context which the Speaker allows but denies mike to the leader of Opposition which is against the established practice of the assembly proceedings.

As main opposition, we have the right to raise issues of public interest and if our voice is scuttled, it is only by design as we have been consistently questioning the loan waiver issue for which TDP Government has no answer, they said.

“We urge the Speaker to be impartial and conduct the House proceedings as per the norms and give us due importance as we are taking up issues of public importance while the treasury benches are wasting the time of the House by irrelevant and baseless remarks,” they said.

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