HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi members stalled proceedings and forced adjournment of the Assembly without transacting any business for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

In a repeat of what happened on Wednesday, the TRS members gathered at the Speaker's podium, held placards and raised pro-Telangana slogans as soon as the proceedings began. When his repeated appeals to the members to resume their seats failed, Speaker K. R. Suresh Reddy adjourned the House for an hour.

When the House reassembled, the TRS members showed no signs of relenting. They continued with their noisy demonstration forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House, this time for the day.

To add colour to their protest, TRS MLAs wore white T- shirts with maps of Telangana in pink drawn on them. They held placards accusing the Congress of betrayal and photographs of AICC president Sonia Gandhi campaigning in Nizamabad wearing a pink scarf. The picture evoked curiosity and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy too had a close look at it.

Like yesterday, the TRS gave an adjournment notice demanding that the House take up resolution on Telangana, but the Speaker disallowed their adjournment motion. As his appeals for order went unheeded, Mr. Suresh Reddy adjourned the House for the day.

A political drama

Later, the Opposition parties slammed the TRS for stalling the proceedings and criticised the Congress for maintaining a stoic silence. Accusing the two parties of enacting a `political drama', TDP deputy leader N. Janardhan Reddy said the Congress seemed happy at the repeated adjournments as it prevented controversial issues from being raised in the House.

Covering up lapses

Nomula Narsimhaiah (CPI-M) said the Congress and TRS wanted to cover up their lapses. Once the discussion on T8elangana takes place, the Congress party's injustice to the region would be exposed, he said.

Chada Venkat Reddy (CPI) said the Congress party should take up the responsibility of conducting the House in a dignified manner while G. Kishan Reddy (BJP) said a debate on Telangana would expose the double standards of both the parties.

TRS floor leader G. Vijayarama Rao said his party would continue to stall the proceedings till a resolution on Telangana was passed.

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