People’s voice gagged

Hyderabad, Dec 22: Women MLAs of YSR Congress have slammed TDP Government for its dictatorial attitude and unilateral decisions which were instrumental in gagging the Opposition voice by successfully avoiding the Call Money cum sex racket from coming up for discussion.

‘The suspension of our MLA RK Roja for one year is not in the known provisions of parliamentary democracy and dalit women members, three days after the incident, trying to implicate our MLA shows the dictatorial attitude of the government,’ party MLAs U Kalpana, G Eshwari, V Kalavathi and P Pushpa told reporters here on Tuesday.

The suspension of Roja and dalit members from treasury benches following it up with their hurt sentiments, three days after the incident shows the nefarious functioning of the TDP and its tactics to keep the Call Money cum sex racket out of the purview of the discussion as many ruling party leaders are involved in the racket, they said.

Roja was speaking on behalf of the hundreds of women who were being harassed and pushed into sex racket by Call Money Operators with the blessings of ruling party leaders. Her voice was gagged by suspending her for one year while the rules state that the suspension cannot exceed the remainder period of the session and the Legislative Affairs Minister redefining the rules by stating that the House is supreme and can give a ruling according to its own will is unpardonable, they said.

Every attempt was made by the government to put the Call Money cum sex racket issue on the back burner, from bringing in an issue which was not in the agenda and misusing the name of Dr BR Ambedkar’s name on the first day and suspension of Roja on the next and unilaterally deciding to give a statement on the issue for which our Leader had given a notice for discussion. The way bauxite issue was treated also calls for caution as it affects the adivasis, they said.