Telangana campaign: 37 Cong, 28 TDP MLAs resign

Hyderabad/New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) In a bid to mount
pressure on the Centre for an early decision on separate
Telangana, 37 ruling Congress MLAs, including four ministers,
and 28 Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLAs from the region Monday
resigned their membership of the southeastern Indian state
Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
In Delhi, seven Congress MPs, who had planned to
resign from the Lok Sabha, did not keep their scheduled
meeting with Speaker Meira Kumar who waited for some time
before leaving her chamber. Now, she has given them time at
5:30 pm (IST).
Four Andhra Pradesh ministers K Jana Reddy, J Geeta
Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Komatireddy Venkat Reddy
submitted resignations from the membership of state Assembly
Monday demanding immediate creation of Telangana state.
They submitted their resignations to Assembly Deputy
Speaker at 12 noon.
The resignations are intended to get the Centre take a
decision on creation of separate Telanagana state over which
it had appointed a committee that had given its report last
year.
The Congress has 50 MLAs from the region in the
294-member assembly.
As many as 28 Telugu Desam Party MLAs from Telangana
submitted resignation from their posts demanding creation of a
separate state.
Three Congress MLAs, including a rebel, too submitted
their resignations on the same issue.
The TDP legislators met Andhra Pradesh Assembly Deputy
Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and submitted their
resignations en masse.