R Ashok donned the robes of conductor when the contingent of MLAs arrived from Delhi at the airport
R Ashok donned the robes of conductor when the contingent of MLAs arrived from Delhi at the airportu00a0
State Transport Minister R Ashok took a writing pad to act as a conductor in the bus that arrived at the airport to take members of assembly, council and parliament to the Golden Palm resort.
Ticket, ticket: Transport Minister R Ashok lists passengers in the bus. Pic/Manjunath HanjiIn the ongoing current political scenario, nobody knows who will quit and join hands with the opposition, that is why Ashok was writing down the names of people and counting who were sitting in bus.
Initially, when the bus conductor wrongly counted the number of members, Ashok scolded him, snatched the paper from him and started to count the number of members.u00a0
He listed down the names of all the members and requested them to be seated on particular seats. After
he got the correct count of the MLAs, and MLCs, Ashok directed the driver to take them to the resort directly.
Total four buses were present outside the airport. Ashok did not want any confusion, so he directed C T Ravi and Katta Subramanya Naidu to count the members in the other buses. After the buses left, he spoke to the media talked with media having full confidence to win the trust vote on Thursday for the second time.
ConfusionThe people flying in to the city yesterday were a confused lot. They had to struggle to go outside as the police had put up a new lane to avoid crowd during BJP members' arrival at the airport.
But as the flight carrying BJP MLAs and MLCs got delayed and a few international flights arrived before them, the police did not allow the passengers to move out from the new lane. The confused passengers were left searching their way out of the airport.
