This Article is From Sep 04, 2013

Telangana row: TDP members use music to protest outside Parliament

Telangana row: TDP members use music to protest outside Parliament
New Delhi: Singing Telugu songs and playing musical instruments, four TDP members, who have been suspended from Lok Sabha for disrupting proceedings on the Telangana issue, today staged dharna at the main gate of Parliament to protest the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

"We cannot enter the House. So we decided to continue our protest against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh outside Parliament," said TDP MP Venugopal Reddy. Mr Reddy, along with N Kristappa, KN Rao and N Sivaprasad staged the dharna.

Holding placards that read "save Andhra" and "respect member not number", the TDP MPs sang Telugu songs and played musical instruments at the main gate of Parliament.

The four TDP members and five Congress members from Andhra Pradesh were suspended from the House on September 2 for the rest of the Monsoon session which concludes on Friday.

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