00:00Let me bring in Abdul Bashir who's joining us live from Hyderabad with more details on this.
00:05Abdul, a whole lot of drama that was played playing out in the Telangana Assembly.
00:09Now beyond this moment that we see on our screens where KTR was being detained,
00:13there are also allegations of the speaker being insulted and what not.
00:17So it's all going down essentially in the Telangana Assembly.
00:24Well yes, it was a high voltage drama that had taken place
00:28or high voltage politics on the streets of, you know, streets in front of Telangana Assembly today
00:33where one side, the BRS, which started as a protest, landed in a scuffle with a police.
00:38Now here, high handedness of the police was the allegation that were put forward
00:42as you can see in the visuals from KTR to Harish Rao
00:45and former Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy was also pulled by her hair is what she has alleged.
00:52Now several of the BRS MLAs were treated, provided medical treatment after this particular scuffle.
00:58But on the other hand, there was a BRS MLC Tata Madhu
01:01who had allegedly used derogatory comments against the speaker, Gaddam Prasadgaro.
01:07Now here, now these remarks have been taken as against the Dalits now
01:11and all the Congress leaders here have protested
01:14and also given a representation to the Chief Minister
01:17asking him to disqualify BRS MLC Tata Madhu,
01:20wherein Tata Madhu has given a clarification that it was not,
01:23that his remarks were against the speaker, against the, you know, the chair or the chairman of the house.
01:30But these remarks were just towards the police officials is what Tata Madhu has clarified.
01:35But however, the tensions have escalated now with all that political heat,
01:39which began on the streets in front of the Telangana Assembly.
01:42Now it landed inside the assembly and to the court as well,
01:45where the BRS has approached the high court seeking action against those police officers who are manhandled.
01:50And also now the Congress MLAs are seeking action against Tata Madhu,
01:55BRS MLC Tata Madhu, for his comments against, allegedly against the Speaker of the House.
02:01Over to you.
02:01Abdul, just stay with me.
02:03You know, what we're also tracking, that these are two aspects essentially of the story.
02:06One is what's happened with KTR in the beginning of the day, even before the assembly kicked off.
02:11And then right after that, you also had allegations that the Congress leveled against a BRS MLC,
02:17alleging that he had insulted and even heard a Dalit slur at, in fact, the speaker, a casteist slur at
02:24the speaker.
02:25Now it is over that that there's been also a showdown.
02:28So much so that Telangana Chief Minister, Revant Reddy, has lashed out, demanded an apology and demanded action against the
02:34BRS MLC.
02:35So on one hand, if you've got the BRS leading this kind of a protest where they're wearing black T
02:41-shirts,
02:41and the other Congress leaders were seen burning effigies today over the BRS MLC's comment, alleged comment against the speaker.
02:50So a lot of drama that's playing out in the Telangana Assembly right now over this issue.
02:56The Chief Minister, Revant Reddy, also speaking in the Assembly on this issue, has picked that up.
03:01So you're seeing the state set between the BRS and the Congress for a big face-off tomorrow as well.
03:07We will also give you a sense of whether the BRS has chosen to back the MLC in question here.
03:12And Abdul, if you're with us, I'll get that clarification from you as well on how the BRS has chosen
03:17to respond
03:18to questions and allegations that they insulted the speaker.
03:25Well, apart from the BRS MLC, Tata Madhu, who spoke with us and said that these were the remarks not
03:30intentionally towards the speaker,
03:32but it was against the police officials.
03:34Well, on the other hand, the BRS has not, the other BRS leaders like KT Rama Rao and Harish Rao
03:40has not commented on this particular incident yet.
03:42But Congress is taking this as a very big game for tomorrow.
03:46Today, the monsoon session has begun for the first day, and tomorrow is a big day for the politics in
03:51Telangana.
03:52On one side, the charge against the police officials, against the Congress of the high-handedness, alleged high-handedness against
03:58the BRS MLAs.
03:59On the other hand, the Congress is alleging the derogatory remarks against the speaker, Dalit speaker, Ghatam Prasad Garo, by
04:08BRS MLC Tata Madhu.
04:09So it's to be seen what would be the, you know, day tomorrow for the politics here in Telangana when
04:15it comes to the charge against each other, be it the Congress or the BRS.
04:20Okay.
