Meet Naramalli Sivaprasad, the man who brings drama to Parliament

Once a stage artiste who also acted in several movies before joining TDP, he has showed up in Parliament dressed as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Krishna

Indian Parliament has seen protests of all sorts — from slogan-shouting and placard-waving to even a pepper spray attack. But few protests have been as creative as the ones by Naramalli Sivaprasad, the Lok Sabha member of Parliament from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.

Once a stage artiste who also acted in several movies before joining the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1998, Sivaprasad has showed up in Parliament dressed as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Krishna, a fisherman, a maulvi, a Christian priest, an astrologer, a street singer, a farmer, a schoolboy, a transgender — and even Hitler.

In 2014, at the