Hyderabad/New Delhi, July 03:Mounting pressure on the Centre, Congress and TDP legislators from Telangana today asserted that they will resign tomorrow in support of their demand for statehood to the region.
Notwithstanding efforts of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, state Congress president Botsa Satyanarayana and the party leadership to mollify them, Telangana Congress MPs, MLAs and MLCs asserted that they would resign from their posts tomorrow.
“We are not quitting the party. We have decided to resign for the sake of Telangana. We humbly request again that Telangana be given,” Ponnam Prabhakar, Karimnagar MP, told reporters in Hyderabad.
“As per the collective decision taken on July 1 by Congress MLAs, ministers, MLCs and MPs, we (Telangana Congress MPs) are going to Delhi. We have decided to submit our resignations between 11 am and 12 noon tomorrow,” he said.
The Telangana Congress MPs are not kids to be mollified or placated, Congress Rajya Sabha member K Keshav Rao said.
In Delhi, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said, “geopolitical gerrymandering especially when it pertains to proposed redrawing of a state boundary, is a very complex, intricate and sensitive business”.
He said the “first requisite of such an exercise is patience and patience as conflicting aspirations of various stakeholders have to be reconciled in a harmonious manner. It is especially true in the Andhra/Telangana matter”.
Meanwhile, the first set of resignations for Telangana cause were handed over today by suspended TDP MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy and three rebel TDP MLAs K Harishwar Reddy, S Venugopala Chary and Jogu Ramanna.
They said they have sent their resignation letters to the Assembly Speaker’s office.
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