MPs: KCR proposal indecent

Jan. 13: The Telangana Congress MPs, MLAs and MLCs, who are trying to pressurise the Congress high command to carve out Telangana, are unwilling to resign from their seats in protest. They are being strongly urged by the TRS and other champions of Telangana, to resign from their seats and so precipitate a crisis at the Centre.Sources told this newspaper that the TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, offered to take the lead by resigning from his Mahbubnagar seat if the Congress MPs agreed to follow suit, but they curtly turned down the proposal. The TD MLAs, too, are not keen on quitting though they are being daily taunted by the TRS chief. Resignation is not the solution. What happens if 11 MPs quit? We cannot achieve Telangana merely by resigning. Instead, we should use Parliament to lobby with the Congress high command and other parties for a consensus on Telangana, said Congress MP, Mr Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy. According to one Congress MP who met the Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, along with a delegation of T-MPs, Mr Mukherjee made it clear that the party was trying to find an amicable solution on T but they should not talk about resigning.The Congress MPs also called on Union Minister Mr S. Jaipal Reddy and explained to him the growing pressure they were under from T-agitators to quit their seats. Congress MP Dr Manda Jagannadham, who was among those who met Mr Jaipal Reddy, said that the high command will take a crucial decision on Telangana very soon.

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