Thursday, December 10, 2009

Cong, TDP MLAs resign en masse over Telangana creation

Unrest over AP divide

A number of Congress and TDP MLAs from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions resigned from their membership of the Assembly to protest against the division of Andhra Pradesh.

The MLAs told reporters that more and more of their colleagues would join them in their protest.
Upset over the creation of a separate Telangana state, two senior Congress MLAs J C Diwakar Reddy and D L Ravindra Reddy were first to resign from their posts.

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 TDP MLA Ramakrishna from Venkatagiri in Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore district too has resigned.

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.

Congress MLA Veerasiva Reddy claimed that about 40 party MLA have expressed their desire to quit over the issue. The MLAs have strongly decried the Congress high command's "unilateral decision" to initiate the process for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

"This decision is very painful for us. Lakhs of people from other regions of the state have come to Hyderabad in search of livelihood. What would be their fate if the state is split," P Venkatramaya, a Congress legislator from Krishna district, said in the Assembly.

TDP MLC N Rajkumari, who also announced her decision to quit, claimed that about 20 legislators have expressed their readiness to quit but party president Chandrababu Naidu has asked them to wait.
"The Centre's decision to give separate Telangana is being described as a gift given by Sonia Gandhi on her birthday. Is the state a cake to be cut into pieces and distributed," Rajkumari asked.

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