Telangana State announcement leads to bandh in Seemandhra, upheaval in Congress
- 5 years ago
Hyderabad: The entire coastal belt of Andhra Pradesh and the southern region of the state called Rayalaseema, are shut today because of a bandh to protest against the announcement in Delhi last evening for a new Telangana state. Schools are closed, buses are off the roads and the Andhra Pradesh Congress faces the threat of a split. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has termed the decision "painful."
Senior Congress MP from Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has said he will resign from the party and give up his seat in Parliament in protest against the Congress Working Committee's recommendation to the Centre last evening that India's 29th state, Telangana, be created by taking 10 districts out of Andhra Pradesh.
Mummidivaram MLA has also confirmed that he has sent his resignation. According to sources, at least half a dozen MLAs and some more MPs from Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra regions might also resign in protest. Many of them will meet Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to decide their final stand today. "We are drinking poison for the sake of the Congress," said Rudraraju Padmaraju, the chief whip of the Congress in the Andhra Pradesh legislative council. But he also conceded that resigning from the state legislature will only benefit the opposition.
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Senior Congress MP from Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has said he will resign from the party and give up his seat in Parliament in protest against the Congress Working Committee's recommendation to the Centre last evening that India's 29th state, Telangana, be created by taking 10 districts out of Andhra Pradesh.
Mummidivaram MLA has also confirmed that he has sent his resignation. According to sources, at least half a dozen MLAs and some more MPs from Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra regions might also resign in protest. Many of them will meet Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to decide their final stand today. "We are drinking poison for the sake of the Congress," said Rudraraju Padmaraju, the chief whip of the Congress in the Andhra Pradesh legislative council. But he also conceded that resigning from the state legislature will only benefit the opposition.
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