By IANS,
New Delhi/Hyderabad : Parliament authorities have removed the nameplate of a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader from the door of room No. 5 on the ground floor of Parliament House and allotted it to the DMK.
The move to evict his party MPs from the chamber was Wednesday described as “shocking” by TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu. He told reporters in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, that it was unfair because the party had been occupying the chamber since 1985.
The nameplate had TDP’s Parliamentary Party leader Nama Nageswara Rao’s name on it.
In 2009, the TDP was asked by the Lok Sabha authorities in New Delhi to vacate the room to accommodate the DMK, which has more MPs than the Andhra Pradesh party. The speaker had allotted room number 156 on the second floor of Parliament House to the TDP.
The TDP has six members in the Lok Sabha and four in the Rajya Sabha. The DMK has 18 Lok Sabha and seven Rajya Sabha members.
The TDP had resisted the move to vacate the room.
Protesting the removal of nameplate without any prior information, Nageswara Rao led a TDP delegation to complain with Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
According to sources, Nageswara Rao told the speaker that the party had been functioning from the the same room for many years.
The speaker, according to sources, made it clear that she could not do anything about this and asked the TDP MPs to talk to the DMK to sort out the matter.