TELANGANA
(11 Ministers resigned from AP Cabinet)
Eleven out of 15 ministers of Andhra Pradesh cabinet hailing from Telangana region on Monday 4th,July,2011, resigned from their posts as well as membership of the legislative assembly on separate statehood issue but maintained that it was “not to defy” Congress high command. After submitting their resignation from assembly membership to Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, a group of ministers drove to Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s camp office and put in their papars. Four other ministers from Telangana, including Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, chose not to follow in the footsteps of their colleagues.
Five ministers Jana Reddy, J. Geeta Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Komatireddi Venkat Reddy and Basavaraj Saraiah came in person to the Assembly building to submit their papers to the Deputy Speaker. Saraiah carried the resignation letters of six of his colleagues to the Deputy Speaker. “Our resignations are neither to defy the Congress high command nor to create political or constitutional crisis in the state. “They are meant only to convey the strong aspirations of Telangana people to the Congress high command as well as the Centre,” senior minister K Jana Reddy told reporters before leaving for New Delhi to confer with AICC leaders. The legislators from Telangana were quitting their posts only under “inevitable” circumstances to find a solution to the statehood crisis, he said. Jana Reddy demanded that the Centre immediately begin the process of creating Telangana state in accordance with its statement made on December 9, 2009. “As true Congress workers, we all would now work towards strengthening the party in the region as well as the leadership of Sonia Gandhi,” he said. After a meeting with the Chief Minister, Minister Sunita Laxma Reddy said they had explained the compulsions under which the ministers had to quit their posts The Congress has 50 MLAs from the region in the 294-member Assembly. As many as 28 TDP MLAs from Telangana submitted resignation from their posts demanding creation of a separate State. The TDP legislators met Andhra Pradesh Assembly Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and submitted their resignations en masse. Five other TDP MLAs from Telangana could not submit their resignations as they were in the U.S. to attend the Telugu Association of North America conference. Three TDP rebel MLAs had put in their papers on Sunday along with suspended MLA Nagam Janardhana Reddy.
Meanwhile, AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, said he has requested the aggrieved legislators to come for another round of talks. “The MPs are already here. I am expecting some representative of the MLAs to reach here,” Mr. Azad said. The Telangana Congress MLAs and Ministers had a two-hour meeting at the residence of Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj minister K. Jana Reddy in the wake of the intervention by the party’s central leadership. “We are going ahead with our resignation,” Congress MLAs T. Rajaya and others said emerging out of the meeting. The meeting was attended by over 15 MLAs and 9 Ministers.
Prof. John Kurakar
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