Senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) lawmaker and former Telangana house minister Sabitha Indra Reddy on Wednesday broke down within the meeting, following an alleged inappropriate comment made by chief minister A Revanth Reddy towards her.
The meeting witnessed heated arguments between the Congress and the BRS members throughout the dialogue on the Appropriation Invoice within the afternoon. The invoice was handed amid protests from the BRS members, who demanded an apology from Revanth Reddy and deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka towards ladies members of the BRS.
All of it started when BRS member KT Rama Rao was accusing the Congress of engineering defections from the BRS. Reacting to the feedback, the chief minister identified the defection of Sabitha from the Congress into the BRS earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“If KTR trusts these sisters sitting behind him and listens to their phrases, he’ll find yourself at Jubilee Bus Stand in Secunderabad,” Revanth Reddy mentioned, and identified not a single girl was given the cupboard berth within the first time period of the BRS authorities. His remark led to a furore within the meeting, as Sabitha and one other BRS MLA Sunitha Laxma Reddy, raised sturdy exceptions to it.
Turning emotional within the Home, Sabitha puzzled why she was being focused for altering the celebration when a number of different MLAs did the identical, together with the current Congress MLAs. “Which celebration did Revanth Reddy come from? There ought to be a dialogue on defections,” she mentioned.
Stating that it was she who had invited Revanth Reddy into the Congress, Sabitha mentioned she predicted that he had the scope of changing into the chief minister, if he joined the Congress. “I blessed Revanth Reddy heartfully. However why is the Congress focusing on me now?” she requested, with a choked voice.
Reddy mentioned he had not used any dangerous phrases towards Sabitha and he all the time handled her as a sister. “She suggested me to contest from Malkajgiri parliamentary constituency in 2019 however then left the Congress for the BRS, even earlier than I used to be declared the candidate. She gained a ministerial place by becoming a member of BRS,” he mentioned.
Deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka additionally alleged that it was due to Sabitha that he had misplaced the Chief of Opposition standing within the meeting. “I used to be made Chief of Opposition, the primary Dalit to occupy that place, by the Congress. I requested her to remain again within the Congress in order that I cannot lose that publish. However Sabitha abandoned the Congress for the sake of ministerial berth,” he mentioned.
The BRS MLAs stormed the rostrum and continued to boost the slogans, however Speaker Gaddam Prasada Rao reprimanded them for creating ruckus. The Home handed the appropriation invoice, amid protest from the BRS MLAs.