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BS Reporter Chennai/ Hyderabad
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 2:06 AM IST

In an unusual situation, the annual Budget speech was delivered by two ministers on the floor of the state legislative Assembly.

After continuing his speech for about 40 minutes, finance minister Anam Ramanarayan Reddy collapsed into his seat as his blood pressure levels shot up amid loud protests from the Opposition benches.

As he was still struggling to recover from this sudden body effect, his senior cabinet colleague and IT minister Ponnala Laxmaiah took out the copy and continued with the speech.

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First Published: Feb 18 2012 | 12:08 AM IST

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