A Congress Rajya Sabha Member said he is feeling “depressed, dejected and ashamed” at being called “mad and a laughing stock.
He said the use of those words were “not any humiliation for me but… certainly a great humiliation for the people of my state (Andhra Pradesh), who were agitating for fulfillment of their legitimate rights”.K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao was apparently expressing his displeasure at the alleged “continuous apathy” of the Central government towards Andhra Pradesh and the non-implementation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.
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Kurien had soon deleted the word “mad” and its following orientations from the records of the House.
Rao wrote: “For the first time in life, I could not console myself last night with a deep feeling of depression and dejection and felt ashamed being the Member of Parliament who was compelled to stay a silent spectator during the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in the name of parliamentary customs and conventions and now being referred to by Chair as ‘mad and laughing stock’ solely because of democratically demanding the Central government to implement the A.P. Reorganisation Act and fulfil the constitutional commitments made to the people of the state.”
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