House adjourned briefly

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 17:52 [IST]

Hyderabad, Feb 26 (UNI) The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was today adjourned for ten minutes with the Opposition parties stalling the House proceedings over the problems of SCs and STs.

Soon after the House met for the day, Speaker K R Suresh Reddy announced that the adjournment motion given notice of by TDP, CPI(M), CPI, TRS and others were disallowed.

Members immediately rushed to the podium of the House, stalling the Question Hour.

With the members not relenting to his promise that the issue could be discussed in another form, the Speaker adjourned the House for ten minutes.

UNI

Topics: ASSEMBLY-AP-ADJOURNED

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