Hyderabad: YSR Congress has announced an Andhra Pradesh shutdown in manner to protest on Friday as the Telangan Bill was tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
YSRC president YS Jaganmohan Reddy, on Thursday in New Delhi said, “The speaker announcing that the bill is tabled without taking into consideration the opinion of the house is a sheer mockery of democracy. It is a black day for parliamentary democracy.”
YSR Congress said it gave the call to protest what it calls the mockery of democracy. It also decided to muster support of all opposition parties to stall the bill.
Jaganmohan Reddy said, “The way Congress is going ahead with its divisive politics is very shameful and Congress president Sonia Gandhi is behaving worse than Hitler and carrying out the division in an authoritarian and unilateral manner.”
Notify that Jaganmohan Reddy is also one of the 16 MPs suspended by the Lok Sabha speaker for taking part in the protest which turned violent.
Meanwhile, Samaikyandhra parirakshana vedika or save united Andhra front has also called for a shutdown in Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra) on Friday to condemn what it alleged the attack on state MPs by the MPs from other states.
Vedika president Ashok Babu claimed that Congress MPs from other states attacked the MPs from the state.
The shutdown was called by APNGOs Association and was backed by YSR Congress and Seemandhra leaders of Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
Ashok Babu is the president of Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers (APNGOs) Association.
Seemandhra also observed a shutdown on Thursday to protest the government’s decision to table the bill.
Bureau Report
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