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Friday, Dec 17, 2004

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TDP stalls House proceedings

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, DEC. 16. Telugu Desam members disrupted the question hour in the Assembly for about 15 minutes on Thursday and raised slogans when the Speaker disallowed their adjournment motion on farmers' sucides and starvation deaths of the weavers.

As soon as the House assembled, the Speaker, K.R.Suresh Reddy, announced that he was disallowing the six adjournment motions given notice of by the TDP, the CPI(M), the CPI, the MIM, the BJP and the Janata Party. N.Narasimaiah (CPI-M) and Ch.Venkata Reddy (CPI) sought to highlight the pathetic conditions of anganwadi workers and the need to ensure minimum wages for them.

Irrigation contracts

MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi's motion was on the situation arising from the stay given by the Supreme Court on the award of irrigation contracts while G. Kishan Reddy (BJP) gave notice on the lack of assistance to the families of farmers and weavers, who committed suicide and died of starvation. K. Ramulu (Janata Party) tabled the motion on the acute drinking water scarcity in all the villages of Metpalli constituency.

Even as the Chair announced that they were disallowed several Telugu Desam members were on their feet and raised slogans seeking an end to farmers' suicides and starvation deaths.

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