Congress Stages Walk-Out Over TSPSC Recruitments

The Congress staged a walk out from the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Friday in protest when Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary disallowed an adjournment motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition K Jana Reddy over the delay in recruitments by the Telangana State Public Service Commission.

At the end of Question Hour, the Speaker informed that he was disallowing different adjournment motions moved by Jana Reddy, BJP floor leader Dr K Lakshman, Ravindra Kumar (CPI) and Sunnam Rajaiah (CPI-M) on various issues.

Expressing his displeasure, Jana Reddy said that it was wrong to disallow all the adjournment motions. He said that the State Government should discuss issues of public importance in the House and should stop avoiding debates.

He said that lakhs of youth had been waiting desperately to get themselves recruited to various posts announced by the government. However, the government was not only delaying the recruitment process, but also avoiding a discussion on the same, he alleged.

Responding to the allegation, Finance Minister Etela Rajender accused Jana Reddy of wrongly blaming the TRS government. He said that it was the Congress government which had avoided debates in the House for the last 10 years. He said that if the Congress party was serious, then it should seek discussion in another form. He said that the government would soon begin the recruitment process.

The minister's reply apparently angered Jana Reddy and he warned the government not to take Congress party's cooperation to the government as its weakness. He said that the Congress had been cooperating with the TRS Government as it was new. He said that his party would not remain silent if the government failed to provide jobs to unemployed youth.

Later, Reddy announced that his party MLAs were staging a walk-out in protest. (INN)