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Illegal mining of sand, granite and different minerals successful immoderate parts of the State rocked the Legislative Assembly connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) starring to suspension of implicit a twelve Bharat Rashtra Samiti members from the House.
Immediately arsenic the House convened for the sitting, BRS members led by the party’s lawman level person T. Harish Rao and moving president K.T. Rama Rao raised slogans demanding constitution of a location committee to probe irregularities successful mining and sacking of Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy from the portfolio for his alleged engagement successful amerciable mining.
With the Treasury Benches remaining unmoved to the demand, the main Opposition members thronged the Well of the House continuing their slogans against the Government’s inaction connected those engaged successful illicit mining of the State’s resources. Repeated requests by Speaker G. Prasad Kumar asking the members to resume their seats went successful vain.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy who intervened successful the substance requested the Speaker to suspend the agitated members for 2 days, Monday being the past time of the fund session, truthful that the remaining concern including transition of immoderate cardinal bills was conducted. With the requests from the Speaker going successful vain, Legislative Affairs Minister D. Sridhar Babu moved the question seeking suspension of the BRS members which was passed by dependable vote.
Kaushik Reddy’s gestures against Kadiyam Srihari referred to Ethics Committee
The House besides saw heated exchanges betwixt the ruling and absorption parties owing to behaviour of BRS subordinate Padi Kaushik Reddy for allegedly making threatening gestures towards subordinate Kadiyam Sridhari. Several members of the ruling party, peculiarly those hailing from dalit communities, took beardown objections to Mr. Kaushik Reddy’s behaviour claiming that the ruling enactment subordinate displayed his “upper caste arrogance” against Mr. Srihari, a elder subordinate of the House hailing from the Dalit community.
The members alleged that the behaviour was unethical and wanted Mr. Kaushik Reddy to beryllium suspended from the House for the remaining portion of his tenure arsenic MLA. They recalled the suspension for the tenure imposed connected the Congress members Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and S. Sampath Kumar by the BRS successful the past for simply staging protestation against the fund proposals and wanted akin enactment to beryllium initiated against Mr. Kaushik Reddy.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy who intervened successful the treatment arsenic the din continued wanted the Chair to instrumentality a determination regarding suspension of the BRS members who were obstructing the proceedings. He refused the Opposition’s request to represent a location committee to probe mining irregularities claiming that the House sheet was lone a recommendatory assemblage and its study would yet beryllium entrusted to the investigating agencies.
“The House sheet cannot instrumentality immoderate action. The study has to spell to Government agencies similar the CID oregon CBI. We person already announced a broad enquiry by the CB-CID into the issue,” helium said. The Chief Minister explained that the State Government had ordered the probe to guarantee that determination was nary scope for “looting of nationalist money” either by the absorption members oregon by the ruling enactment members, if any, involved.
As the BRS members remained unrelenting, they were suspended from the House for 2 days.
