Actress-anchor and YSR Congress party MLA from Nagari in Chittoor district, R K Roja, has turned a big embarrassment for party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, with her acerbic tongue and unusual behaviour. After facing an unprecedented punishment of being suspended from the Assembly for one year, Jagan is learnt to have expressed displeasure at the way Roja used unparliamentary language against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Naturally, her behaviour has come as a big opportunity for the ruling Telugu Desam Party to turn tables on the YSR Congress party, which is going all out to expose the involvement of TDP leaders in the call money racket. Jagan was forced to defend Roja in the Assembly after she had left following her suspension, but party leaders said he was terribly upset with her.
“While everybody in the party was bringing pressure on Naidu, she tried to grab the media attention by raising slogans and using filthy language against the Chief Minister. It only gave the advantage to the TDP and we had to be on the defensive, “ Jagan is learnt to have commented. This was not the first time that Roja had proven a big headache for Jagan. In the past, too, she made ugly comments in the Assembly and made obscene gestures at the TDP members. Then, too, Jagan had to reprimand her.