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Telangana: 33 TDP, 5 Cong MLAs resigned; others on way to follow
Monday July 04, 2011 01:01:56 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: All 33
legislators of Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party
(TDP) from the Telangana region Monday submitted their
resignations to press their demand for a separate state. Five
legislators of the ruling Congress have also resigned while others
were on their way to the assembly to quit.
TDP leader T. Devender Goud told reporters outside the assembly
that all members of his party from Telangana have submitted
resignations to Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka as Speaker
N. Manohar is in the US.
Three of the TDP legislators faxed their resignations from the US.
Four rebel members of the party had sent their resignations Sunday
from their hunger strike camp in Hyderabad.
Five legislators of the Congress have submitted their resignations
to the deputy speaker since Monday morning while about 25 others,
including a dozen ministers, were on their way to assembly to
quit.
The Congress legislators left for the assembly after a meeting at
Panchayat Raj Minister K. Jana Reddy's residence.
The legislators said the resignations were aimed at pressurising
the centre to carve out separate Telangana state as promised by it
Dec 9, 2009.
Telangana accounts for 119 legislators in the 294-member assembly.
The Congress has 52 members, including two of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP),
which recently joined with the ruling party.
TDP has 37 members from the region while Telangana Rashtra Samiti
(TRS) has 11.
The ruling party legislators who resigned this morning included
Vishnuvardhan Reddy, rebel member Konda Surekha and G. Venkat Ram
Reddy, who faxed his resignation from the US.
Ministers from Telangana have sought an appointment with Governor
E.S.L. Narasimhan to submit their resignations. Reacting to
reports that the central leadership invited them to Delhi for
talks, minister K. Venkat Ramreddy told reporters that there was
no question of going to the capital unless the centre agreed to
form a separate state.
"We have already made it clear that our visit last month was the
last visit to Delhi for talks," he said.
Nine MPs of Congress have reached Delhi to submit their
resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Police have made elaborate security arrangements around the
assembly building.
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