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TRS
legislators to quit again as speaker rejects resignations
Sunday July 24, 2011 11:08:01 AM,
IANS
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Hyderabad:
All 11 legislators of Telangana Rashatra Samithi (TRS) will submit
their resignations again Sunday while Congress and Telugu Desam
Party (TDP) leaders from Telangana are meeting separately to chalk
out their future course of action after Andhra Pradesh assembly
speaker rejected their resignations.
In a statement issued Saturday night from the office of state
legislature secretary, Speaker N. Manohar said he was rejecting
resignations of all 101 lawmakers from Telangana as they were
tendered in emotionally charged atmosphere.
Reacting sharply to this development, TRS announced that all its
11 legislators will submit their resignations again on Sunday.
Over 100 MLAs belonging to various parties had submitted their
resignations earlier this month to press the demand for a separate
Telangana state. The lawmakers who resigned consisted 47 of ruling
Congress, 37 of TDP, 11 of TRS, four of Communist Party of India
(CPI) and two of the Bharatiya Janata Pary (BJP).
Telangana region accounts for 119 seats in the 294-member
assembly. The resignations were aimed at creating a constitutional
crisis and forcing the central government to take a decision on
carving out a separate state.
Interestingly, the speaker's decision was announced through the
office of legislature secretary soon after he boarded a flight to
London to attend a Commonwealth speakers' meeting. He is likely to
be away till the middle of August.
The speaker, who was in the US when the resignations were
submitted, consulted constitutional experts and also met Lok Sabha
speaker Meira Kumar and others before taking a decision.
Reacting sharply to the speaker's decision, TRS leader K.
Chandrasekhara Rao said his party legislators would submit their
resignations again. He said they would continue to do so till
their resignations are accepted.
TRS legislator Harish Rao termed the rejection of resignations as
a "conspiracy against Telangana". He said the speaker's decision
was unilateral as he did not even consulted the legislators.
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