Kadapa MLA Reddeppagari Madhavi Reddy created hulchul in the general body meeting of Kadapa Municipal Corporation on Thursday. The woman MLA fired on Kadapa Mayor K Suresh Babu for not allowing her to sit in the general body meeting and intentionally creating obstacles.

The fight between Kadapa Mayor Suresh Babu and MLA Madhavi Reddy broke out, as soon as the general body meeting started in the morning. As chairs were not provided to MLA Madhavi Reddy, her followers raised protest. Even after protest, neither Mayor Suresh Babu nor Municipal officials took care to offer a chair to Madhavi Reddy, making matters worse.

Miffed by Mayor’s intentional behavior to humiliate her, Madhavi Reddy breathed fire on him and corporators.

The point to be noted here is, Mayor Suresh Babu and most of the corporators in Kadapa Municipal Corporation belong to YSRCP. As Madhavi Reddy belongs to TDP, they intentionally tried to obstruct her, though she has rights and power to attend General Body Meeting as an ex-officio member, being an MLA.

But being a firebrand, Madhavi Reddy gave it back to Mayor and YSRCP corporators in their own terms. As Madhavi Reddy’s protest made headlines at statelevel, Mayor and YSRCP corporators left the meeting midway. While Madhavi Reddy attracted all the attention at the meeting, YSRCP has been left in defensive mode.

“Earlier Mayor used to offer utmost respect and made MLAs sit beside him in general body meeting. But as I am from TDP he intentionally denied a chair for me. What’s disheartening is, Mayor didn’t even consider that I am a woman,” explained Madhavi Reddy speaking to the media after the incident.

“Mayor and YSRCP corporators are trying to create obstacles, fearing that I will expose their corruption. They have humiliated me, without even considering me as a woman. I will not get deterred by their tactics. I will ensure that YSRCP’s corruption in Kadapa Municipal Corporation is exposed,” thundered firebrand Madhavi Reddy.

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