Time for Cong to merge with TRS -3 Cong MLAs Join KCRs Party

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Hyderabad: Putting to rest speculation that TRS would merge with Congress,party president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday clarified that time has come for Congress to merge with his party. Rao, speak-ing at function held to welcome three Congress MLAs,Jupalli Krishna Rao,T Rajaiah and Somarapu Satyanarayana and hundreds of their supporters into the TRS fold,cautioned PM Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson against testing the patience of Telangana people. He said Congress and all other political parties would soon lose their political livelihood in the region if they failed to respect public sentiment. The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi must remember that more MLAs are willing to join us,not only from Congress but other parties also.The day is not far away when the Congress will have to merge with TRS.We will dictate terms to Delhi by winning all seats in the region.We forced the Centre to concede Telangana on Dec 9,2009.In the future,they will have no choice but to abide by their earlier announcement on initiating the process of formation of T state.We once again demand the PM and UPA chairperson to honour their word, he said. KCR dares Naidu to move no-confidence motion Stating that these three resignations would give TRS the strength of 1,000 elephants,Rao assured them of a bright political future in the new state.Todays event once again reflects the unity among T people and their leaders.These MLAs have set aside their party janda (flag) and have taken a plunge into the movement to achieve the agenda (of Telangana state).Their services will never be forgotten, he said. Rao asked Telangana ministers to break their silence and build pressure on the Centre by taking sides with the agitating people and stop supporting the Seemandhra government.How long will you hang on to power If you resign from your posts,Delhi will give us our state, he said. The TRS chief challenged TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu to prove his sincerity by moving a no-confidence motion against Kiran Kumar Reddy,who has lost the moral right to govern the state.If the TDP chief claims that he is not hand-in-glove with the Congress,then he must pull down the Kiran-led Congress government in the state during the winter session of the House by moving a no-confidence motion.We will support the motion against this dictatorial Govt. Else,you will go down as a permanent betrayer of Telangana, he said. Lashing out at T-TDP MLAs for failing to rebel against Naidu for the cause of Telangana,KCR questioned why they were continuing in a party that has been repeatedly working against the interests of Telangana people. The three MLAs earlier in the day accused the Congress high command of failing the people of Telangana."The indecisiveness on the part of the Congress bosses is a matter of serious concern.The Centre's silence and indifference to the hundreds of suicides in the region has made us feel that the Congress is not willing to give Telangana.We cannot stay in a party that remains silent to police excesses on their own elected representatives.Cases are being foisted against elected representatives.It is becoming tough for us to continue as ruling party members.There is no future for the party as it refuses to take a firm stand on Telangana.We are taking a direct plunge into the agitation from this moment on,"they said.Lashing out at his erstwhile cabinet colleagues from the region,Rao said,"Had T ministers resigned from their posts,Telangana would have been a reality by now.We are resigning from Congress to build pressure on the Congress high command and also on the ministers and MLAs from the region. These MLAs who have already resigned from their elected posts in support of the separate statehood demand two months ago faxed their resignations to the PCC president on Sunday. Konda Lakshman to fast in New Delhi His struggle for separate Telangana state may have stretched several decades,but 96-year-old Acharya Konda Lakshman Bapuji remains undaunted as he goes on a seven-day hunger strike in New Delhi from November 1.Announcing his decision to go on a satyagraha in New Delhi on Sunday,Bapuji warned that he would organise a mass agitation in the region if the Centre does not initiate the statehood process by the end of his strike.I have been fighting for a separate state for over four decades now.Promises haven't been kept,precious lives have been lost,yet there has been little progress in this issue, he lamented.PTI T CHORUS: Congress MLAs T Rajaiah,S Satyanarayana and J Krishna Rao raise slogans in support of Telangana after joining TRS in the presence party chief KCR and MP Vijayashanthi in the city on Sunday =============================================== Cong calms T MLAs with SUV gifts Mahbubnagar: After quitting the Congress on Sunday,Jupalli Krishna Rao made a significant announcement that several other Congress leaders would follow the suit.Notwithstanding Jupallis claims,the party leadership was already in the fast lane by gifting highend SUVs to young Telangana Congress MLAs to see that they do not jump the fence and join KCRs Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Sources told TOI that 15 Telangana Congress MLAs were the benefactors as each one of them was gifted a Toyota Fortuner vehicle,costing a whopping Rs 25 lakh.The desperation in the Congress camp was evident as the young legislators were presented the premium SUVs a few days back.Some of the MLAs had threatened to quit in support of the separate Telangana demand. ==================================== Cong puts up brave front as 3 MLAs resign   Hyderabad/Mahbubnagar: While the Congress tried to put up a brave front saying that the resignations of three MLAs would not hurt the party in Telangana,Telangana Congress leaders said it doesnt bode well for the party. PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana said in Mahbubnagar on Sunday that the three MLAs had quit the party only to pursue their personal agenda.He said separate Telangana state would not be created through resignations.The UPA government is seized of the matter.Those who are resigning from the party must be under illusion that Telangana would be granted through their resignations, he said,ridiculing the action of Jupalli Krishna Rao,T Rajaiah and S Satyanarayana.The good news to put an end to this T-tangle will be announced soon, he said. Senior Congress leader K Keshava Rao blamed it on the party leadership and indifferent CM.He said the MLAs were upset over the delaying tactics of the party leadership and added that he would convey their concerns to the high command when he meets senior leaders in Delhi on Monday.Telangana Congress MPs Vivekanand and Madhu Yashki Goud said the MLAs quit the party only because of lack of a strong leadership in the state Congress.Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao said the resignation of three Congress MLAs in T-region was unfortunate when the party high command is seriously working out a solution.Speaking to reporters in Guntur,Rao said some leaders in the T-region were worried about their winning chances in the next elections and hence were switching over to TRS to get elected again. =============================================== (source-toi)