The decision to give en-masse resignation was reportedly taken in the meeting of Seemandhra MPs held at union minister Pallam Raju’s residence here late Tuesday night. Union Minister Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, JD Seelam, KVP Ramchandra Rao, Lagadapati Rajagopal and K Bapiraju were among the MPs who attended the meeting. According to sources, the MPs, in principle, have decided to put in their papers if the party High Command refuses to defer the decision Telangana.

The MPs will meet again on Tuesday morning at the residence of K Bapiraju to take the final decision. A few MPs were of the opinion that their continuance with the Congress party was meaningless if they could not convince the High Command against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Therefore, they are now planning to topple the UPA Government if it decides in favour of Telangana.

After the DMK pulled out of the UPA in March this year, its strength was reduced to 242 from 260. However, with the outside support of SP (22), BSP (21) and RJD (4) the Congress-led coalition had more strength than the magic number of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The Seemandhra MPs are now planning to use the same equations in their favour to halt Telangana. Congress has 19 members from Andhra and Rayalaseema region. If other six members from the region support them and Samajwadi Party, which is against Telangana, extends a helping hand, then the survival of UPA-Government at the Centre would be difficult.

Although it would be premature to predict that the Seemandhra MPs would go to the extent of toppling the Congress-led Government, some MPs gave clear indications that they might go any extent to prevent division of Andhra Pradesh.

According to sources, these additional forces would be deployed in the Rayalaseema and Andhra regions where protests are likely to take place if the Centre decides in favour of Telangana formation. These forces would be in addition to 1,200 paramilitary personnel who are already deployed in the two regions. Besides, the Centre has also asked 200 personnel of Karnataka Armed Police and 100 personnel of Tamil Nadu Armed Police stationed in Hyderabad to assist the State police in maintaining the law and order.

It may be mentioned that Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Home Secretary Anil Goswami held a meeting last week with DGP V Dinesh Reddy and Chief Secretary Dr PK Mohanty on the law and order situation in the State and the requirement of forces in view of Telangana decision.

According to sources, Kiran Kumar Reddy has sent his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday evening. He reportedly stated that he does not want to see the division of Andhra Pradesh as the Chief Minister. However, the report of resignation is yet to be confirmed by any official or party spokesperson.

The decision to submit resignation is believed to have been taken during the meeting that the Chief Minister had with his cabinet colleagues from Rayalaseema and Andhra regions at the State Secretariat on Monday evening. Ministers – Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, Ganta Srinivasa Rao, K Parthasarathy, Pithani Satyanarayana and other senior leaders from the Seemandhra region participated in the meeting.

It may be mentioned that the Congress High Command has summoned Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy CM Damodar Rajanarasimha, PCC Chief Botsa Satyanarayana to New Delhi ahead of the CWC meeting which will be preceded by the meeting of UPA Coordination Committee. With the Centre looking firm on granting statehood to the Telangana region, the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues from Seemandhra have decided to resign en-masse to pressurise the Centre to defer decision on Telangana.

It is not yet known whether Kiran Kumar Reddy will proceed to New Delhi on Tuesday.

اتر پردیش کانگریس کے سابق سربراہ ریتا بہوگنا جوشی نے کہا کہ پارٹی صدر نے پارٹی ترجمان اور پینل کے اراکین کے اجلاس کا آغاز کرتے ہوئے یہ بات کہی. یہ کانفرنس ایسے وقت منعقد ہو رہی ہے جب لوک سبھا انتخابات کے لئے ایک سال سے بھی کم وقت بچا ہے

راہل گاندھی کا یہ انتباہ ایسے وقت میں آیا ہے جب کہ کانگریس نے پارٹی کے سیکریٹری جنرل شکیل احمد اور پارٹی کے رہنما رشید مسعود کے اس بیان کو نامنظور کر دیا ہے، جس میں انہوں نے کہا تھا کہ 2002 گجرات فسادات کی وجہ سے دہشت گرد تنظیم انڈین مجاہدین کا قیام ہوا

کانگریس جنرل سکریٹری دگ وجے سنگھ، مرکزی وزیر بینی پرساد ورما اور جے رام رمیش کو متنازعہ بیان دینے پر پارٹی قیادت کئی بار ٹوک چکی ہے. راہل گاندھی یہ بھی چاہتے ہیں کہ پارٹی کارکن اور لیڈر اپنی زبان میں کافی شائستگی برتیں