Cong, BJP, TDP members stage walkout in Telangana Assembly

The members of all Opposition parties in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, including Congress, BJP and TDP, today staged a walkout in the House in protest against the TRS government allegedly not making concrete budgetary allocations for its promise of providing two bed room houses for poor and other issues.
The walkout came at the end of the debate on Demands for Grants for 2016-17 on housing, social welfare, tribal welfare, backward classes welfare, minority welfare, women, child and disabled welfare.
Senior Congress MLA and former minister T Jeevan Reddy, who announced the walkout of his party, also expressed protest over the government allegedly not releasing funds to poor people houses built during the Congress regime.

BJP floor leader K Laxman alleged that the government adopted a non-serious attitude towards the welfare of SCs, STs and BCs.
TDP member S Venkata Veeraiah expressed dissatisfaction over the TRS government on its promise to provide 12 reservations each for minorities and STs.
YSR Congress, CPI and CPI(M) also walked out in protest.

During the debate, state Ministers A Indrakaran Reddy, G Jagadish Reddy and others responded to the comments of the opposition members on various issues.
The government is committed to the implementation of all the schemes, they asserted.
Speaking after the walkout by the opposition members, Legislative Affairs Minister T Harish Rao hit out at them.

Highlighting the various schemes being implemented by the TRS government, including social security pensions, 'Kalyana Lakshmi' and 'Shadi Mubarak' of offering financial assistance to brides of weaker sections at the time of marriage, he said the state government is spending the highest amount among all states in the country on welfare.
People's confidence in the TRS government was proved in the party's wins in elections civic bodies in Hyderabad, Warangal, Khammam and also by-polls to Warangal Lok Sabha seat and Narayankhed assembly segment, he said.
Later, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and the Telangana Value Added Tax (Amendments) Bills were passed.