The credit goes to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for completely avoiding monsoon session of the assembly this year. Besides, this year till now the assembly was met only for 11 days, the lowest number of the days in the history. Besides 10-day budget session, it held a special meeting to approve GST bill on Aug 30.

Though Chief Minister said that the winter session will be held later this month, till he has to finalise the dates. Accusing that the government is avoiding to conduct assembly sessions, fearing questions from the opposition parties on its `misrule’, the Congress party has started to bring pressure on the chief minister to convene the session without further delay.

The Legislators of Congress party held protest today demanding that the State Government convene the Assembly and Council sessions immediately. Led by TPCC President N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Congress Legislature Party leader K. Jana Reddy and Leader of Opposition in Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir, the Congress MLAs and MLCs held dharna before the statue of Mahatma Gandhi statue in Assembly premises.

When the Congress legislators were prevented by the police from going close to Mahatma Gandhi statue from inside the Assembly, they came out of the Assembly premises and staged sit-in protest outside the main grill.

Earlier, they staged protest at the CLP office and condemned denial of permission by the security forces to hold protest before the Mahatma Gandhi statue. Meanwhile, Telangana Legislature Secretary Raja S. Sadaram met the Congress leaders and held detailed discussion on their demands.

Uttam Kumar Reddy said that there were several issues of utmost public importance that need to be discussed in the House. They include farmers’ suicides, failure of government to clear dues of crop loan waiver scheme, Fee Reimbursement and Aarogyasri and also the negative impact of demonetisation of high value currency notes.