PROTEST MODE:Telugu Desam MLAs, led by N. Chandrababu Naidu, staging a walkout from the Assembly on Tuesday. — PHOTO: SATISH H.

HYDERABAD: Walkout by the Opposition two times and a ten-minute adjournment by Speaker K. R. Suresh Reddy amid pandemonium marred question hour in the Assembly on Tuesday.

Trouble arose when Telugu Desam and Telangana Rashtra Samithi members tabled adjournment notices on rising prices of essential commodities while CPI(M) members demanded a debate on the police firing on oustees of the Polavaram project in Bhadrachalam.

Carrying placards and onions, TDP members stormed the podium raising slogans in support of their demand for a statement on rising prices. The CPI(M) members squatted in the well to press for adjournment notice. Mr. Reddy's appeal that the issues could be discussed after the debate on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address failed to convince them.

As the Opposition insisted on a debate, the Speaker adjourned the House. Uproarious scenes were witnessed when the House resumed. As the Speaker took up the listed questions, the CPI (M) and TRS members protested and walked out. Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu decried the Government's `negligent' attitude towards sufferings of people and lead walkout by the party.

DSC examination

Pandemonium was witnessed once again when TDP members asked for cancellation of the District Selection Committee (DSC) examination and a judicial inquiry into alleged irregularities in Kadapa district.

Replying to a question by K. Atchan Naidu (TDP) and others, School Education Minister N. Rajyalakshmi said action was initiated against the Deputy District Educational Officer and four teachers found guilty of tampering with OMR (optical mark reader) sheets of Secondary Grade Teachers' (Telugu) papers.

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