vIndianz.com (24, Dec 2009) — Congress party MPs from the Telangana area Thursday determined to quit in order to protest the Central government’s move to put on hold the procedure for forming a Telangana state.
Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud from Nizamabad and his associate Ponnam Prabhakar from Karimnagar said they had decided to quit respecting the emotions of the people of the district.
All party MPs from the district would be holding a gathering at the house of Nalgonda MP G. Sukhender Reddy in New Delhi. They would settle on whether to put forward their resignations to Congress president Sonia Gandhi or Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Goud supposed that MPs, including central ministers from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, defied the party’s verdict on the Telangana matter and resorted to blackmail plans.
“The same people who earlier tried to blackmail the party are responsible for this situation,” he said referring to Jaganmohan Reddy’s attempts to become chief minister following his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s demise in a helicopter crash.
The Nizamabad MP suspected that K V P Ramachandra Rao, Rajya Sabha member and close adviser of the late chief minister, was behind the en mass resignations of the legislators from Andhra and Rayalaseema after the Dec 9 statement by the centre to commence the procedure of forming a Telangana state.
The Telangana area has 17 members in the Lok Sabha. They consist of 12 of the Congress party, two each of Telugu Desam party and Telangana Rashtra Samiti and one of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).
Usual life Thursday came to a grinding stop in parts of Hyderabad and nine other districts of the Telangana area as a 48-hour blackout was called by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and other groups.
State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) suspended all bus services whereas private vehicles also went off the roads following aggression in parts of Hyderabad and some towns late Wednesday.
Shops, business establishments, petrol bunks, cinema theatres and all educational institutions remained closed in reaction to the shutdown call to dissent the centre’s most recent statement on the matter of a separate Telangana state.
Tension prevailed in the area as police made defensive arrests and forced prohibitory orders banning the gathering of five or more people. Police and paramilitary forces were deployed in enormous numbers to stop violence.
Students and workers of different parties came on the streets across the area soon after Home Minister P. Chidambaram made the statement in New Delhi Wednesday evening. In his statement, the minister said the circumstances had changed in the state and political parties were alienated on the matter.
As the violence increased, the authorities switched off electrical energy in some districts of north Telangana. There were in addition reports of authorities snapping cable television broadcasts in some area to control the violence.
Further Reading- Congress silent on Telangana plan
- Sonia Gandhi to elucidate Congress position on Telangana
- TRS seeks yet another resolution on Telangana in assembly – Times of India
- Telangana Congressmen pin hopes on Jaipal Reddy – IBNLive.com
- TRS says will vote against Congress if no-trust motion moved – IBNLive.com
- Aggression seen at Osmania University following the Telangana bandh
- Telangana agitation to be stepped up in July – Hindustan Times
- Telangana? Yes, but SRC should study other demands: BJP – Economic Times
- Will follow Sonia’s decision on Telangana: Andhra Congress – Times of India
- TRS not to attend meeting on Telangana – The Hindu
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