Hyderabad, June 02: Rajya Sabha Member and senior Congress leader K Kesava Rao on Wednesday stated that the party MPs from Telangana region would visit New Delhi from June 6 to June 10 to build pressure on the Centre on the separate statehood issue.
Talking to media persons after emerging out of meeting with MPs at Komatireddy Rajgopalreddy residence in Jubilee Hills, Mr Kesava Rao stated that the MPs would meet again on June 5 to take stock of the latest political situation in Telangana and devise the strategy to be adopted to push for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
After the meeting, a delegation of the MPs would leave for New Delhi to meet senior Congress leaders from June 6 to June 10. This delegation would ask the Centre to stand by the December 9, 2009 statement made by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Another MP, Ponnam Prabhakhar echoed Mr Kesava Rao’s words and asked the Centre stand by the famous December 9, 2009 statement in order to rebut charges made by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj during the Telangana Poru in Karimnagar district on Tuesday.
If the Centre does not take any decision by June 30 over the separate statehood demand, the Telangana MPs would launch hunger fasts to mount pressure on the Centre towards introducing Telangana Bill in Parliament from July 1, Mr Kesava Rao stated.
He also stated that the MPs would resign from their posts for the cause of Telangana.
MP Rajagopal stated that he was ready to sacrifice his life for the cause of Telangana, if the Centre did not favour the separate statehood demand.
Mr Rajagopal added that he would write a letter to Prime Minister on the behalf of MPs over the need for solving the issue quickly and to protect the party image in the three regions of the state.
The MPs meeting come in the backdrop of a resurgence of the separate Telangana statehood issue, especially after the Telugu Desam Party suspended its senior leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy. Besides the TDP, the Telangana issue has rocked the Congress with two Ministers fighting a turf war for supremacy, taking the issue as an excuse, even as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Bharatiya Janata Party launching various agitations to mount pressure on the Centre over the issue.
——–Agencies