HYDERABAD: Revenue minister N Raghuveera Reddy's comments on Opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu during the course of the debate o..
HYDERABAD: Revenue minister N Raghuveera Reddy's comments on Opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu during the course of the debate on drought generated immense heat in the Assembly Sunday with TDP members taking serious exception to them.
The wordy duel quickly degenerated into personal allegations. Normalcy was restored with the intervention of speaker N Manohar.Raghuveera Reddy, speaking on the drought, made an oblique reference to a statement made in the past by Naidu that agriculture was a sector that did not need much attention. He also ridiculed the farmer headgear worn by Naidu during his Rythu Porubata tours.
Taking serious exception to these comments, TDP members hit back at Raghuveera Reddy. For more than 15 minutes they stalled proceedings despite the speaker requesting them to resume their seats.He also objected to Raghuveera Reddy taking a dig at Naidu and said farmers in the state were suffering like never before as they were not able to get remunerative prices for their produce and were being forced to fight for fertilisers everyday.Raghuveera Reddy, reacting to this taunt, said the university that honoured him was a respected institution and since he came from an agricultural family, and his paternal uncle being a gold medalist from that university, it chose to confer him with the doctorate.He told TDP members not to call him Dr Raghuveera Reddy if they did not like it, since he was not pleading with them to do so, he said.
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