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  • Uproar in the House, 13 TDP MLAs suspended

    Uproar in the House, 13 TDP MLAs suspended

    VIJAYAWADA: In what could be an unprecedented development, as many as 13 MLAs of the opposition TDP were suspended from the AP Legislative Assembly when they started sloganeering soon after Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath began his speech presenting the State Budget 2023-24 on Thursday.

    The TDP members stood up and continued sloganeering alleging that there was no match between the budgetary allocations and expenditure and also why the government was borrowing and not in a position to pay wages to the employees on time.

    Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said it was not correct to disturb the budget speech. Stating that people across the State were watching the presentation of the budget, he faulted the opposition MLAs for raising slogans intentionally. He requested Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram to discipline the TDP MLAs so that the people can listen and understand the budget message more clearly.

    Though the Speaker made repeated appeals and also suggested to them that they could express their views during the discussion on the budget, the TDP MLAs continued sloganeering. “You please walk out of the House  if you have no trust in the budget,” the Speaker said. Later, Legislative Affairs Minister Buggana Rajendranath moved the motion to suspend the 13 MLAs for one day and the Speaker announced their suspension.

  • ED issues notice to YSRC MP in Delhi liquor ‘scam’ case

    ED issues notice to YSRC MP in Delhi liquor ‘scam’ case

    VIJAYAWADA: Enforcement Directorate officials reportedly served notices on YSRC MP from Ongole Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy to appear for investigation on March 18 in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor scam on Thursday.

    Earlier, the ED arrested Srinivasulu Reddy’s son Raghava Reddy for his alleged role in the Delhi excise policy money laundering case and is currently being held in judicial custody at Tihar jail.  He was arrested on February 11 after the ED had questioned Raghav for eight hours and was produced before special court, which remanded him to 10-day ED custody to allow the agency for ‘go into the root of the matter’.

    It may be recalled that ED has already alleged that a cartel called ‘South Group’ of liquor retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers was created as part of the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, where both the father and son were part of it. The ED notice came in the wake of the statements made by some of the accused in the case, including Sameer Mahendru and Arun Pillai. The investigation agency had searched premises linked to the Ongole MP last year and seized incriminating documents from them reportedly.

    Earlier, the four-time MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy denied having any sort of links with the scam a day after his name mentioned in the remand report of ED. He stated that it was a conspiracy hatched by the North Indian liquor lobby against the South Indian liquor businessmen.