The TDP members were on their feet during Question Hour as TRS member E Ravindra Reddy and Redya Naik, who recently switched from Congress to the ruling party, alleged that the milk supplied by the firm was adulterated.
State Information Technology Minister K T Rama Rao supported his party colleagues and flashed a purported order issued by Kerala government banning the milk.
Taking exception to this, TDP's senior legislator A Revanth Reddy and others came into the Well of the House.
Revanth pointed out that Kerala government permitted sale of the company's milk after it found nothing amiss.
Amid the din, Speaker S Madhusudanachari adjourned the House for ten minutes, but order did not restore as the IT Minister alleged that the TDP members were acting like "stooges" of the neighbouring state's Chief Minister.
As the opposition members continued their protest, the Speaker adjourned the House again for ten minutes.
The ruckus happened during Question Hour when legislators of TDP and Congress raised the adulterated milk supply issue and expressed serious concern over it.
"It's a social evil and the government needs to take stringent action against those indulging in supply of adulterated and synthetic milk as it seriously affects public health," senior Congress MLA J Geetha Reddy said.
Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy, who also holds the animal husbandry portfolio, expressed concern over adulterated milk and administration of Oxytocin injections to milch cattle to increase yield.
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