Hyderabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao defended the Speaker’s decision to suspend the BJP legislators for the entire budget session. He said BJP MLAs were suspended for entering the well of the House as per the decision taken during the previous BAC meetings. He reminded that Congress MLAs were not suspended as they did not […]
Speaker P Srinivas Reddy announced the suspension as they began raising slogans in the House even as the Finance minister T Harish Rao was presenting the State Budget in the House that commenced its session on Monday.
The ADR, in a new report, said between 2016-2020, 182 of the 405 re-contesting MLAs, who switched political parties, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), followed by 38 who joined the Congress and 25 who joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).