Congress MPs, legislators to quit Monday for Telangana
July 1st, 2011 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, July 1 (IANS) Stepping up pressure on the central leadership over the Telangana issue, Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh, state ministers and legislators have decided to resign Monday.
Unhappy over the delay in formation of separate state, public representatives of the ruling party in Andhra Pradesh Friday decided to submit their resignations.
Senior leader K. Keshava Rao told reporters that the MPs would submit their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar while the state legislators would hand over their papers to state assembly Speaker N. Manohar.
“We are here not for posts but for people of Telangana,” said Panchayat Raj minister K. Jana Reddy while announcing the decision to resign.
He said all members of assembly, including ministers, would meet the assembly speaker at 11 a.m. Monday to submit their resignations. The members of legislative council will submit their papers to council chairman K. Chakrapani.
Jana Reddy demanded that the central government should abide by its Dec 9, 2009 announcement to initiate the process for formation of separate Telangana state.
He said they had to take the decision as the pressure was mounting on them from people to sacrifice their posts for the sake of separate state.
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