NEW DELHI: Nine of the 13 Andhra Pradesh Ministers from Telangana who have resigned over the issue, on Sunday held consultations with party seniors here and urged them to convey to the Congress leadership the need for announcing a time frame for forming a Telangana State.
The Ministers, who faxed their resignation in a joint letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, met Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy and Congress Working Committee member K. Keshava Rao (both belong to Telangana region). The Ministers did not want Mr. Reddy to resign from the Union Cabinet as they wanted him to be in the government and fight for Telangana.
They told the leaders that Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s statement on Wednesday stating that further consultation would be held with the political groups and others had caused apprehension among the people that the subject had been put on hold.
They also plan to meet in the next couple of days Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ms. Gandhi and Mr. Chidambaram among others to press their demand.
Information Minister J. Geeta Reddy asked both the Centre and the Congress to come out with a time-bound programme for the creation of Telangana.
They also planned to meet other party seniors like Pranab Mukherjee, A.K. Antony, Ahmed Patel and M. Veerappa Moily.
The other Ministers in the delegation were: P. Sudarshan Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, V. Sunita Laksma Reddy, D.K. Aruna, D. Sridhar Babu, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, R. Venkat Reddy and J. Krishna Rao.
Meanwhile, all the 11 Lok Sabha members from Telangana, who have already sent their resignations to Ms. Gandhi are expected to come back to Delhi on Monday to continue to mount pressure on the Centre.
Peddapalle Lok Sabha member G. Vivekanand said there was no question of withdrawing the resignation letter till they get some satisfactory statement from the Centre on the statehood issue and the time-frame. He said only the Congress could form Telangana as it had the numbers in Parliament. He allayed apprehension of the Andhra settlers in Hyderabad stating that their interests would be protected.
The Ministers, who faxed their resignation in a joint letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, met Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy and Congress Working Committee member K. Keshava Rao (both belong to Telangana region). The Ministers did not want Mr. Reddy to resign from the Union Cabinet as they wanted him to be in the government and fight for Telangana.
They told the leaders that Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s statement on Wednesday stating that further consultation would be held with the political groups and others had caused apprehension among the people that the subject had been put on hold.
They also plan to meet in the next couple of days Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ms. Gandhi and Mr. Chidambaram among others to press their demand.
Information Minister J. Geeta Reddy asked both the Centre and the Congress to come out with a time-bound programme for the creation of Telangana.
They also planned to meet other party seniors like Pranab Mukherjee, A.K. Antony, Ahmed Patel and M. Veerappa Moily.
The other Ministers in the delegation were: P. Sudarshan Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, V. Sunita Laksma Reddy, D.K. Aruna, D. Sridhar Babu, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, R. Venkat Reddy and J. Krishna Rao.
Meanwhile, all the 11 Lok Sabha members from Telangana, who have already sent their resignations to Ms. Gandhi are expected to come back to Delhi on Monday to continue to mount pressure on the Centre.
Peddapalle Lok Sabha member G. Vivekanand said there was no question of withdrawing the resignation letter till they get some satisfactory statement from the Centre on the statehood issue and the time-frame. He said only the Congress could form Telangana as it had the numbers in Parliament. He allayed apprehension of the Andhra settlers in Hyderabad stating that their interests would be protected.
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