Assembly incident cooked up: YSR

HYDERABAD: Opposition leader Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday told the chief minister that the ruling party members had misrepresented the facts about the Congress legislators who tried to meet Chandrababu Naidu in his Assembly chambers on April 22, 2003. Rajasekhara Reddy, accompanied by Congress legislators, called on Naidu in the Assembly. They also submitted a memorandum to him requesting the government to take up ten developments works in the constituencies of Congress legislators.
According to sources, both the leaders were in a cheerful mood.Rajasekhara Reddy remarked it was unfortunate that the chief minister had presumed that the Congress legislators were trying to break into Naidu’s chambers.
Naidu replied that the Congress leaders had created tension by raising slogans and barging into the corridor. When Government whip E Dayakar Rao intervened to support the CM’s remark, Rajasekhara Reddy in a lighter vein requested Naidu to remove his party whips E Dayakar Rao and Gadde Babu Rao as they consistently disturbed the proceedings in the Assembly. There were peals of laughter when Naidu promptly replied, “I have to suffer them more as they sit right behind me.�