Amaravati: For the third day in a row, opposition TDP MLAs were suspended from the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Wednesday as they stormed into the Well of the House when Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was speaking on the Polavaram multipurpose project.
"Call the Marshals in and send them (Telegu Desam Party members) out of the House," the Chief Minister requested Speaker Tammineni Seetaram, as the opposition legislators rebutted the government's claims on the project.
"They do not want the governments voice carried to the people, so they are deliberately trying to disrupt the House proceedings. Call the Marshals and send them out," he said, following which Legislative Affairs Minister Buggana Rajendranath moved a motion for suspension of nine TDP MLAs for the day.
Immediately, the Marshals stepped in and whisked the opposition members out of the House.
In the lobbies, the TDP members confronted Chief Marshal Theo and demanded to know why the Marshals were being "so rude" towards the legislators.
"It never happened in the past. Marshals used to gently try to evict the suspended members from the House and the latter too used to walk away after raising a protest for a couple of minutes," senior legislator Payyavula Keshav pointed out.