Ugly scenes were witnessed in AP Assembly even during the Speaker election today. YCP MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy’s remark triggered heated exchanges. He accused Opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu of sending his ‘bantrothu’ Atchannaidu to accompany the newly elected Speaker to the podium along with CM Jagan instead of himself taking up that responsibility.

Then Atchannaidu demanded an apology from the YCP MLA for his derogatory remarks against a backward classes MLA like him. YCP MLAs tried to defend Chevireddy by saying that Naidu should have avoided this controversy by himself accompanying Speaker. Naidu explained that he didn’t accompany because he was not invited by the ruling party. He recalled that during the TDP regime, he sent one of his Ministers to invite the then Opposition leader Jaganmohan Reddy to accompany Kodela Sivaprasada Rao.

TDP members relented only after Speaker offered to verify records and make a statement in the House later.