Hyderabad: For the second day in a row, the Telangana statehood issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly leading to two adjournments this morning.
When the House began at 9 AM, TDP and TRS legislators from the region stormed the Speaker's podium holding placards and raising slogans demanding that the House pass a resolution seeking creation of Telangana state.
Speaker Nadendla Manohar rejected an adjournment motion moved by TRS, TDP, BJP and CPI in this regard. Amidst the sloganeering, the Speaker initially adjourned the proceedings for 15 minutes.
The Congress MLAs from Telangana too joined the protest, standing at their respective seats, when the House re-assembled after more than an hour.
As the din continued, the Speaker asked the ministers concerned to move the demands for grants of their respective departments and adjourned the House for 30 minutes the second time.
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha too was adjourned till 2 pm as uproar continued there over the issue, with pro-Telangana MPs shouting slogans against the Centre.
The demand for separate Telangana paralysed proceedings in the Lok Sabha for the second day with agitating members of the TRS, TDP and Congress storming the Well to press for immediate statehood.
It was trouble from the time the House assembled for the day as slogan-shouting members from the Telangana region, carrying placards, rushed to the Well demanding a separate state.
Chanting slogans of 'Jai Telangana', they wanted immediate introduction of the Bill to create the separate state. JD-U members joined them in the Well raising slogans against Team Anna for using derogatory language against parliamentarians.
Amid uproar, Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the House for till noon.
Similar scenes were witnessed when the House reassembled. The Speaker directed laying of papers and called SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to speak on the Union Budget.
As the din continued, Kumar adjourned the House till 2 pm after Yadav's brief participation in the discussion.
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