Gaddam Prasad Kumar assumes charge as Telangana Assembly Speaker; Revanth, KTR greet him
KTR while asking the Speaker to also listen to the opposition said that he also wished that the same tradition of comradery must continue in the Assembly. “Please do look to your left side also sir,” KTR said
HYDERABAD: Vikarabad legislator and former Minister Gaddam Prasad Kumar assumed charge as the third Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Legislative Affairs Minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu, and former Minister KT Rama Rao on behalf of BRS legislative party leader K Chandrashekar Rao and other floor leaders led him to the podium and greeted him on taking charge from Pro-tem Speaker Akbaruddin Owaisi.
Later, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy thanked everyone for making the unanimous election of the Speaker possible. “I wish we continue this wonderful tradition in the future also. The Speaker belongs to Vikarabad, a place that is capable of driving away all maladies,” he noted.
He said that the Speaker hailed from a joint family and was conversant with dealing with the aspirations of many people by coordinating with all. He recalled the efforts of the Speaker to secure a medical college in Vikarabad. He said that the Speaker also took the initiative for the expansion of the APPA Junction-Manneguda junction road.
Former Minister KTR while asking the Speaker to also listen to the opposition said that he also wished that the same tradition of comradery must continue in the Assembly. “Please do look to your left side also sir,” KTR said stressing the need to give ample time to the opposition to air their voices in the State Assembly.
“KCR couldn’t be here today because of the surgery, but when the proposal came from Sridhar Babu to elect you unanimously, my father agreed and instructed all of us to elect the Speaker in one voice,” KTR said. He added that he had the experience of entering the Assembly along with the present Speaker as an MLA in 2009.
As Minister for Handlooms, Gaddam Prasad Kumar visited Sircilla and heard the voices of the weavers, KTR said. “When I invited him he was skeptical as those were the days of Telangana agitation and emotions were high. But I took him along with me and he initiated several measures after visiting Sircilla,” KTR mentioned.
KTR wished that the new Speaker would follow the standards set by earlier Speakers Sirkonda Madhusudana Chary and Pocharam Srinivas Reddy in the running of the Assembly.
Bhatti Vikramarka, Sridhar Babu, Seethakka, Danam Nagender, Srinivas Yadav, Prashanth Reddy, Jupally Krishna Rao, Konda Surekha, and others also spoke on the assuming of charge by the Speaker.