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Andhra Pradesh

Government urged to implement welfare measures

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JULY 23. Members belonging to different parties on Thursday were unanimous in their view that the new Government should implement with commitment the various measures intended for the welfare of tribals, women, children, disabled, minorities and weaker sections.

This would ensure that the lot of the genuinely needy persons was improved, they said while participating in the debate on the demands of Tribal/Women/Child/Disabled/Minority/Social and BC welfare.

TRS seeks

special package

While hailing the Congress Government for allocating more funds for the welfare of people belonging to these sections who constitute a significant majority of the population, members belonging to the Congress and the TRS criticised the previous Telugu Desam regime for not spending the Budgetary allocation made to the welfare of the weaker sections.

The TRS members, S. Bapu Rao, Sara Rani, Govind Naik pleaded for a special packages for the development of SCs, STs and Girijans who continued to suffer neglect by the previous Governments.

Of `harikatha'

and `pittakatha'

The former TDP minister, Ayyanna Patrudu, caused a flutter by urging the TRS member, Padma Devender Reddy (TRS) to learn "harikatha", after praising her for narrating a "pittakatha" earlier this week during the debate on Budgetary demands of power.

She had narrated the story to ridicule the TDP Government's privatisation policy.

MLA urged to

withdraw remarks

Both the Minister for Legislative Affairs, K. Rosaiah, and the panel Speaker, C. Narsi Reddy, called upon the TDP member to desist from making such remarks and to withdraw it. Mr. Patrudu contended that he had not used any unparliamentary expression.

While J. Geeta Reddy, Minister for Tourism, objected to the expression, Mrs. Padma Devender Reddy threatened to stall the proceedings till Mr. Patrudu apologised.

Ravibabu, Suvarna Sudhakar (both Congress), G. Demudu, Narasimha (CPI-M), L. Rajarao (BSP), Ravindra Kumar and Nazervali (CPI) participated in the debate.

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