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Four more
MPs, 16 legislators from Telangana resign
Tuesday July 05, 2011 06:35:00 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Hyderabad: Four more parliament members and 16 legislators from Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region resigned Tuesday to step up pressure on
the central government to carve out a separate state.
Intensifying the movement for a separate state of Telangana,
parliament members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have submitted their resignations.
While TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao and his colleague
Vijayashanti faxed their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira
Kumar, TDP MPs N. Nageswar Rao and Ramesh Rathore tendered their
resignations in New Delhi.
With this, the number of MPs who have resigned since Monday has
gone up to 14.
KCR, as the TRS chief is popularly known, and Vijayashanti said
they would soon visit Delhi to personally meet and request Speaker
Meira Kumar to accept their resignations.
Nine Lok Sabha members and one Rajya Sabha member of the Congress
party tendered their resignations Monday.
Meanwhile, 16 more members of the assembly, including a minister,
have also submitted their resignations the state assembly speaker.
State Minister for Textiles Shankar Rao, who was initially
reluctant to quit, faxed his resignation to the speaker from the
US.
All 11 members of assembly belonging to the TRS and all four of
the Communist Party of India (CPI) have also quit. They handed
over their resignations to legislature secretary as both the
speaker and the deputy speaker were not available.
With their resignations, the total number of legislators who have
quit has gone up to 96. Telangana accounts for 119 members in
294-member assembly.
The members of assembly who have resigned include 40 of the ruling
Congress party, all 37 of the TDP, both members of the Praja
Rajyam Party (PRP), and three associate members of the Congress.
A total of 82 members of the state assembly, including 11
ministers, had submitted their resignations Monday.
Both legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are also
likely to quit Tuesday evening.
Three members of the legislative council also quit Tuesday. As
many as 12 members of the council had submitted their resignations
Monday.
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