A day after threatening to give mass resignation, the Congress MPs from the Telangana region have softened their tones stating that they would mount pressure on the High Command to take a favourable decision on the statehood issue.
Peddapalli MP G Vivek on Monday also wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi complaining that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy mishandled the issue of Telangana March. Demanding that the Congress High Command take an early decision on the statehood issue, he said that the Chief Minister’s approach and attitude towards the issue would damage the party in near future.
Earlier, Panchayat Raj Kunduru Jana Reddy ridiculed that the demand of Telangana Political JAC seeking resignation of all ministers and elected representatives of Telangana region. He said that the ministers were ready to resign if their act could get statehood for Telangana region. However, he said that the resignations submitted earlier did not bring positive results. However, he announced that a delegation of Congress leaders of Telangana would go to Delhi on Tuesday to explain the situation to Sonia Gandhi and other Central leaders.
Nalgonda MP Gutta Sukhender Reddy blamed three other Congress MPs – Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao and Lagadapati Rajagopal of stalling the formation of Telangana State. Talking to reporters after the meeting of Telangana ministers, MPs and MLAs at Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha’s residence at Ministers’ Quarters, he claimed that the people of Seemandhra regions were not against Telangana formation. However, he said only three MPs from the region were causing obstructions in the formation of Telangana to save their personal interests.
Ministers Basvaraj Saraiah and Prasad Kumar, MPs Manda Jagannatham, G Vivek, Ponnam Prabhakar, C Rajaiah, Balram Naik and MLC Yadav Reddy also participated in the meeting.
–Agencies