Ruling party conspiring to keep us away from Legislature session, raises people’s issues: BRS

BRS alleges ruling party conspiracy to silence opposition in Telangana Legislature by barring entry with specific t-shirts.

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that the ruling party has conspired to keep the main opposition away from the ongoing session of the Legislature by not allowing them enter the premises of Assembly and Council by wearing t-shirts with the pictures of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and business tycoon Gautam Adani.

“What is illegal about wearing the t-shirts, particularly when Congress leaders led by Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi were registering similar protest in Parliament and the presiding officers there did not object to a similar attire — Rahul Gandhi and others wearing t-shirts with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Adani. Has the Speaker of Telangana Assembly fixed any dress code for members”, BRS leaders G. Jagadish Reddy and S. Madhusudana Chary said while addressing a press conference here on Monday.

The BRS leaders stated that their attempt was only to highlight the double standards of the Congress as it was opposing Gautam Adani in Delhi and supporting him in Telangana by inking investment deals. They sought to know whether the Congress was free to oppose Gautam Adani in Parliament and support him in the Telangana Assembly. They said they had simply emulated Rahul Gandhi but were not allowed even into the Assembly premises.

They sought to know as to how the Assembly Speaker and Council Chairman would fault the BRS when a similar action by Rahul Gandhi was not objected to in Parliament. The larger plan was to keep the voice of BRS from being raised in Assembly and Council on the issues concerning people.

The BRS leaders reiterated that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had conspired to allow Gautam Adani to loot the wealth of Telangana as the lands for a cement factory at Ramannapet in Nalgonda district and the industrial cluster at Lagcherla in Vikarabad district were being acquired for Mr. Adani.

Earlier, the BRS legislators and other leaders staged a protest in the party office by raising slogans against Revanth-Adani deals, holding placards and objecting to the Telangana Talli statue design finalised by the State government without ‘Bathukamma’, the cultural symbol of Telangana.