Hyderabad, February 26: Buckling under pressure from people in Telangana, particularly from the employees and students, Telangana Congress MLAs have come out openly to register their protest on Telangana issue on the floor of the Assembly today. They have decided to continue their protests in the Assembly.
Shortly, the ministers and MLAs from the region would leave for New Delhi to convince their party president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on statehood issue.
Taking inspiration from their party Telangana MPs who had registered protests by displaying placards on statehood issue in the Parliament recently, about 13 Telangana Congress MLAs (against a total of 52 who included 16 ministers and two associate members) with placards in their hands, for the first time, rushed towards the well of the House and continuously raised ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans. By this time, the TRS members already reached the podium while the TDP, CPI and BJP members from Telangana expressed their support to the Congress by raising ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans from their respective seats.
To avoid facing an embarrassing situation inside the House due to continuous protests by the TRS and other parties from the region, the Telangana Congress MLAs avoided entering the House during the first two adjournments. Instead, they had a meeting at the CLP office to discuss about their future action programme and strategies to be adopted in the Assembly.
Soon as the session resumed after two adjournments, about 13 Telangana Congress MLAs rushed to the well of the House. They refused to hear deputy Speaker N Manohar’s plea to cooperate in allowing proceedings in the House.
Talking to newsmen after the adjournment, the Telangana Congress MLAs Ch Muthyam Reddy, G Venkataramana Reddy, A Mohan, T Rajaiah, K Laxma Reddy, Bikshapathi Goud, P Kista Reddy, S Satyanarayana and others asserted that they would continue their struggle till formation of Telangana state.
They said that they would request all the Seemandhra MLAs to cooperate with them with regard to T issue. “Let us divide like brothers, and live together like friends”, they told Seemandhra people.
–Agencies