Spelling trouble for the Kiran Kumar Reddy Govt,10 Congress MLAs from Telangana on Friday announced that they would not hesitate to take the extreme step of resigning from the state Assembly if the Centre indefinitely postpones taking a decision on T. The threat from the T Congress MLAs comes at a time when the CM has been claiming that he has been able to rein in all the party elected representatives from the region except seven MPs on the separate state demand.Breaking their long silence,the MLAs met in the CLP office on Friday and decided to hold a larger meeting with the T- ministers, MLCs and MPs before the commencement of the budget session in March. In a belated appeal nearly ten days after AICC Gen Secy Ghulam Nabi Azad made it clear that there was no deadline on the T-, MLAs G Venkataramana Reddy, chief whip, P Anil Kumar (whip),K Sridhar,B Bikshamaiah Goud,A Maheswar Reddy,VM Abraham, Ch Muthyam Reddy,T Narasa Reddy,T Nandiswar Goud and P Krista Reddy urged the party leadership to announce the Telangana decision as early as possible.
They, however, were hopeful that the Congress would not go back on its commitment to accord statehood to T.We are not disappointed with the Centre for not keeping its word on announcing its decision on the separate state demand before January 28.That is because we are hopeful that the present consultations will lead to a positive decision soon, they said. The T-Congress,once a very active group in the region,is now a divided lot.The party leaders in the region are divided into various factions such as MPs,ministers,MLAs-MLCs and senior leaders with each group disagreeing with the other.While the MPs are open critics of Kiran Kumar Reddy,the MLAs are primarily seen as loyal to him.The ministers,led by K Jana Reddy,always tread the middle path.The MLCs,though vocal in their support to Telangana,are a minority in the party. Among the Rajya Sabha MPs,V Hanumantha Rao is his own group while Ananda Bhaskar is non-committal on the issue while Palvai Goverdhan Reddy heads an extremist pro-Telangana group of senior leaders in the region such as K R Amos,K Yadava Reddy etc.
Sources said the T Congress MLAs were forced to make their stance public in favour of T after the announcement of the resignation of the MPs and the growing attacks on the Congress leaders. A wider meeting is being planned with the ministers,MPs and MLCs to discuss the latest situation on the Telangana,said Gandra.Speaking to the media after the meeting,the chief whip said all the peoples representatives from the T Congress were planning to write a letter to party Sonia Gandhi urging her to take an early decision on T. The results of the recent elections for primary agricultural cooperative societies (PACS) have reflected the peoples aspirations in the regions.The victory of the ruling party candidates shows that Telangana people have confidence in the Congress leadership, he said.The chief whip said they would request the party to honor this sentiment of the Telangana people by announcing an early and favourable decision. When asked if they would also submit resignations like the T-Congress MPs,Gandra said that would be decided based on the partys attitude towards the resignations of the MPs.All these issues would come up for discussion in the next meeting of the T-Congress elected representatives from Telangana,he added.
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They, however, were hopeful that the Congress would not go back on its commitment to accord statehood to T.We are not disappointed with the Centre for not keeping its word on announcing its decision on the separate state demand before January 28.That is because we are hopeful that the present consultations will lead to a positive decision soon, they said. The T-Congress,once a very active group in the region,is now a divided lot.The party leaders in the region are divided into various factions such as MPs,ministers,MLAs-MLCs and senior leaders with each group disagreeing with the other.While the MPs are open critics of Kiran Kumar Reddy,the MLAs are primarily seen as loyal to him.The ministers,led by K Jana Reddy,always tread the middle path.The MLCs,though vocal in their support to Telangana,are a minority in the party. Among the Rajya Sabha MPs,V Hanumantha Rao is his own group while Ananda Bhaskar is non-committal on the issue while Palvai Goverdhan Reddy heads an extremist pro-Telangana group of senior leaders in the region such as K R Amos,K Yadava Reddy etc.
Sources said the T Congress MLAs were forced to make their stance public in favour of T after the announcement of the resignation of the MPs and the growing attacks on the Congress leaders. A wider meeting is being planned with the ministers,MPs and MLCs to discuss the latest situation on the Telangana,said Gandra.Speaking to the media after the meeting,the chief whip said all the peoples representatives from the T Congress were planning to write a letter to party Sonia Gandhi urging her to take an early decision on T. The results of the recent elections for primary agricultural cooperative societies (PACS) have reflected the peoples aspirations in the regions.The victory of the ruling party candidates shows that Telangana people have confidence in the Congress leadership, he said.The chief whip said they would request the party to honor this sentiment of the Telangana people by announcing an early and favourable decision. When asked if they would also submit resignations like the T-Congress MPs,Gandra said that would be decided based on the partys attitude towards the resignations of the MPs.All these issues would come up for discussion in the next meeting of the T-Congress elected representatives from Telangana,he added.
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(Source- toi)
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