Speaker rejectes adjournment motions

Hyderabad, Sept 21, 2012: Speaker Nadendla Manohar, for the fourth day today, has rejected the adjournment motion of the YSR Congress Party in the assembly. The party served a notice for adjournment on the issue of the scarcity of drinking and irrigation water in the state.

The party MLAs in the last three days had also served notices for adjourment of the House on various issues such as power crisis, diesel price hike , fee reimbursement and farmers' problems.

Manohar rejected other adjournment motions submitted by TDP, TRS, BJP, MIM, CPI and CPM on the issues of fee reimbursement, Telangana resolution, local body elections, power crisis, and tribal problems.

Ever since the monsoon session of the assembly began four days ago, the Speaker has been continuously rejecting the adjournment notices served by opposition parties on various issues plaguing the state.