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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Special Correspondent
The matter figured during the debate on the criminalisation of politics and scams led to heated exchanges between treasury and Opposition benches disrupting the proceedings for over an hour. With the Speaker, K. Pratibha Bharathi, allowing the member to reply to the Opposition charges, Congress members at one stage rushed to the podium demanding that the Chair not allow the Minister to speak. It all started when K.R. Suresh Reddy of the Congress questioned the continuance of the Minister, who was accused in a double murder case, despite the comments made by a Division Bench of the High Court. This only reflected how the Government was "criminalising'' the Cabinet, he said. This evoked a serious protest from the Minister for Major Industries, K. Vidyadhara Rao, who criticised the Congress member for making such sweeping remarks even as the Minister for Legislative Affairs, Y. Ramakrishnudu, took objections under Rule 281 wherein the member should give a prior notice to the Speaker before making any allegations against any member. The senior Congress member, M.V. Mysoora Reddy, who intervened, said that while the Rule 281 holds good in case of allegations of defamatory nature, Mr. Suresh Reddy was not making an allegation but referring to a matter of fact. "Is it not a fact that the Minister is attending court whenever there is a hearing? " he said. At this juncture, the CLP leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, reminded the comments made by the High Court on the continuance of the Minister charged in a double murder case and said that the Chair should not allow Mr. Ramasubba Reddy to air his views as the matter was sub judice. "Is it not a fact that Mr. Ramasubba Reddy stands in front of the Magistrate with folded hands whenever he is summoned. Mr. Reddy can say anything he want in the Court, but if he is allowed to express his views here, the matter will become sub judice," he said. Reacting swiftly to the charge, the Minister for Information, S Chandramohan Reddy, recalled that cases were also registered against Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy and said that the CLP leader should clarify as to whether he attended the courts or not. However, with the Speaker permitting him to clarify on the charges, Mr Ramasubba Reddy explained as to how his name was dragged into the case by the then Congress Government, just because he happened to be a member of the former Minister Siva Reddy's family. "I was not even in active politics when the incident took place. Leave aside the Ministry, I am prepared to quit active politics if the charges against me are proved," he asserted. Turning the tables on the CLP leader, he said that it was in fact the family of Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy who were encouraging murder politics in the Rayalaseema region. He also charged the Congress leaders with planning to kill two to three ruling party leaders in each mandal in the Rayalaseema region to terrorise people and get political mileage.
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