In a repercussion of the Central government not fulfilling its promise made with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), a regional political party, all 16 legislators of the party resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly on Tuesday in order to show its protest in delay of granting statehood to Telangana region.
Earlier four MPs of the TRS party had submitted resignation on the same question to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha on Monday.
The four Member of Parliaments K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Vinod Kumar Boianapalli, Ravinder Naik Dharavath and T. Madhusudan Reddy submitted their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee soon after the House convened on Monday, which the Speaker accepted later in the evening.
Today, TRS legislators led by the party's floor leader, G Vijayarama Rao, submitted their resignation to the State’s Assembly Speaker K R Suresh Reddy and vowed that they would go to people’s court and the ruling Congress party would have to pay for it in the state’s next assembly election.
These resignations have supplemented momentum to the demand for separate statehood to Telangana region including 10 districts in addition to Hyderabad. The debate in the legislative assembly centred rounds the MLAs resignation issue.
The entire opposition parties accused the Congress government infusing regional ill feelings in the state and demanded the Congress a reply to the TRS allegation of `betrayal'.
All the disgruntled legislators accused Congress for injustice and alleged Chief Minister Y S Rajshekhar Reddy as the biggest stumbling block to the creation of a separate Telangana state.
The floor leader Vijayarama Rao stated they had to take the decision of resignation under anxiety, as they had left no option, but to resign. He accused Congress leadership in the state for deceiving the people of Telangana and said their resignation in-group is a mark of protest against Congress, who had promised for a separate state prior to elections. But now Congress is calm and showing no gesture towards the bifurcation of the Andhra Pradesh and thereby separating Telangana from the state.
The TRS alleged that the chief minister was misleading the Congress leadership at the Centre to refuse separate statehood to the region though most parties favoured the demand in the United Progressive Alliance’s sub-committee led by Pranab Mukherjee.
On the other hand, minister for rural development G Chinna Reddy said that the Congress high command was taking all steps to realise the sentiments of Telangana people. He recommended the TRS leaders not loose their faith on Congress President Sonia Gandhi and work together with Congress for the development of this region.
Present status
TRS was formed by K Chandrashekhara Rao after separating from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 2000. The party after making an alliance with the Congress battled the 2004 elections and won five Lok Sabha seats and 26 assembly seats.
It became the part of the allied government both at the Center and in the state on the approval of Congress by giving an assurance to carve out separate Telangana state. But, the delay caused the TRS Party in pulling from coalition in the state in 2005 and from the central cabinet in 2006.
The demand for separate statehood to Telangana, is more than four decades old. The region, which was part of the former Hyderabad state was merged with Andhra State to form a united state for Telugu-speaking people in 1956.
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