Legislators splurge on handlooms, get 40% off
Legislators on Friday went on a textile shopping spree for Sankranti in the Legislative Assembly and Council lobbies.
The TS Handloom Cooperative Society opened a retail outlets in the Legislature premises, selling Dharmavaram, Narayanpet, Gadwal, Pochampally silks, Bandar, Rajahmundry, Guntur, Venkatagiri cotton sarees, cotton shirts and other readymade garments, bedsheets, lungis, carpets, towels and offered a 30 per cent discount.
Encouraged by minister K.T. Rama Rao’s campaign to promote handloom cloth to help weavers, TSCO opened the outlets, which saw ministers, legislators and others queuing up.
TRS MP K. Kavitha, who had come to the Assembly to greet Deputy Speaker Padma Devender Reddy on her birthday, invited some of the women legislators to the TSCO stall. Congress MLAs D.K. Aruna, J. Geetha Reddy and several others joined her.
“I picked up a couple of Gadwal, Pochampally and Ikat sarees for me and my mom and presented one to Ms Devender Reddy on her birthday,” Ms Kavitha told DC.
She used her debit card to pay `43,182 for eight sarees after discount. The sales staff gave 40 per cent discount to her and the legislators as a goodwill gesture.
Several other legislators too purchased sarees and dress material.
Congress MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, who picked up a cotton shirt, said the quality was good and price low. “I prefer cotton. I picked up some shirts. They are good,” he said.