After UP, now Andhra MLAs on the rampage

HYDERABAD: A day after MLAs in Uttar Pradesh disrupted the assembly session on Tuesday, pandemonium broke out in the Andhra Pradesh state 

MLAs on the rampage in Andhra Pradesh assembly (Times Now) More Pictures

assembly on Wednesday when a major row broke out between chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and leader of the opposition, TDP's Chandrababu Naidu. 

Reddy challenged Naidu and said he would complain to agencies, if the latter found fault with the companies that were run by his son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. The Andhra chief minister lashed out at Naidu for casting aspersions on his character and accusing him and his family of being complicit in the Satyam scandal, due to their alleged proximity with the IT firm’s disgraced ex-chief, Ramalinga Raju. 

Reddy also alleged that Heritage Foods, a company promoted by Naidu's family, sold Rs 60 crore worth of land for a mere Rs 3 crore to a subsidiary  Heritage Infra, thereby causing heavy loss to the shareholders. 

Eventually pandemonium broke out in the assembly following which the house was adjourned twice, TV channel Times Now reported. 

Assembly affairs minister Rosaiah introduced motion of suspension of opposition members, following which Speaker Suresh Reddy suspended 55 members. Members, however, refused to leave the House and marshals had to pull the members out of House. In the ensuing scuffle, one TDP MLA P Keshav was injured. 

The Andhra CM had said on Tuesday that there was "nothing amiss" in the companies run by his son and challenged leader of opposition N Chandrababu Naidu to lodge a "complaint" against them if he finds any fault. 

"There is nothing amiss in the affairs of either Sandur Power Company or other subsidiaries floated by my son Jaganmohan Reddy and business partners," the chief minister had said, reacting to the allegations leveled by Naidu during the course of the debate on the Satyam scandal in the assembly. 

He said, "If there is anything wrong, you can approach the proper agencies with your complaint". What's wrong in it? If shares of Sakshi newspaper, floated by Jagan were sold at a higher price than the face value," Reddy added.