Congress decission on Telagana back fires. 51 Resigned MLA’s more Threaten to Resign across party line.

  

Two senior Congress Members of Legislative Assembly and former ministers J C Diwakar Reddy and D L Ravindra Reddy on Thursday resigned from their post in protest against the party’s decision to carve out a separate state of Telangana.

While Diwakar Reddy represents Tadipatri assembly constituency in the backward Anantapur district, Ravindra Reddy is from Mydukuru in Kadapa district of Rayalaseema.

Informed sources said Telugu Desam Party MLA Ramakrishna from Venkatagiri in Sri Potti Sriramulu in Nellore district too resigned. But TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu [

Congress sources said many more MLAs from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema have said they would resign ahead of the proposed resolution in the assembly seeking creation of Telangana state.

Several ministers and MLAs hailing from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions have strongly decried the Congress high command’s ‘unilateral decision’ to initiate the process for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

The Congress legislators from these regions are in consultation with their colleagues in Telugu Desam Party and trying to muster support against the division of the state.

Meanwhile, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi [ HYPERLINK “http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=sonia+gandhi”HYPERLINK “http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=sonia+gandhi”Images ] has summoned all the Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh to her residence at 4:15 pm. The move is perceived to be a preventive arrangement to stop more MPs from quitting.

Earlier, Congress Member of Parliament from Andhra’s Vijayawada, Lagadapati Rajagopal, resigned in protest against the Centre’s decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and form a Telengana state.

Sources said Rajagopal met Speaker Meira Kumar [ HYPERLINK “http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=meira+kumar”HYPERLINK “http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=meira+kumar”Images ] on Thursday morning and is understood to have conveyed his decision to quit from the house. He then left for Hyderabad vowing to fight for a unified Andhra.

Andhra Congress sources also said some more MPs from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema region will resign in protest against the decision.

They also said Congress MPs will meet on Thursday and decide their future course of action.

MLA’s Resign and MP’s unhappy over the late night annoncment of a nod for Telenaga Sate by Carving AP. Several MLA’s are at the office of the speaker in the state assemble to submit there resignation to the speaker, either demanding to keep Hyderabad as a Union Territory, and some demanding formation of Rayalseema too a separte State.

The TDP MLA are taking as an oppertunity to project the issue as saying that Congress did not take the people in AP in confidence before to go and take such a important decisision which mattered the interests of all the people of the state.

There are many sentiments to be addressed and aspirations satisfied togeter with the aspirations of the Telangana people.

The MIM is holding its lips tight on this issue the MP of MIM Asaduddin Owaisi is slilent too. He conrols 7 MLA’s in the state Assembly.

Many demanding in the political circles asking the govt to have a all party discussion and come to a consensus on the issue be fore to take a decission like this.

Decision on Telangana puts Congress Party on Hot plate this could be advantage TDP.