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Andhra Pradesh : TRS Ministers quit |
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Five Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) ministers have resigned from the Congress-led Y.S. Rajashekhra Reddy Government in Andhra Pradesh. The five Ministers submitted their resignation letters directly to Governor Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday, July 4. This brings to an end their 12-month old uneasy coalition with the Congress in the State. The resignation does not pose any danger to the state Government as the Congress has a majority in the Assembly on its own.
But the fall out may have its repercussions at the Centre with the TRS threatening to pull out of the Manmohan Singh Government if it fails to receive what it called a “satisfactory” response on the issue of separate statehood for Telangana region. TRS party chief and Labour Minister Chandrashekhra Rao met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week to urge him to expedite the Pranab Mukherjee Committee Report on Telangana.
Talking to newspersons later, Chandrashekhra Rao said there is no going back on the TRS decision to pull out of the Rajshekhara Reddy Government in Andhra Pradesh. He said the Chief Minister has been behaving like a factional leader and did no deal with the TRS as a partner.
Observers say that the TRS decision to quit the Andhra Pradesh Government came after threats from Naxalites to act against them for its failure to secure a separate Telangana State.
As a fire fighting measure, a meeting of the Pranab Mukherjee panel on Telangana was convened on July 7 to discuss the responses of various parties to the statehood demand. After the meeting of the committee, Pranab Mukherjee said that there has been no response from the principal opposition BJP.
The sub-committee which was set up nearly eight months back to go into the CMP’s assurance of a separate Telangana statehood, had written to different political parties to get their views on it. Many responded, but several parties, including the BJP, did not.
Accordingly, Mukherjee, Raghuvansh Prasad and Dayanidhi Maran will meet again before Parliament begins on July 25, hoping the BJP would have, by that time, responded to their reminder on the subject.
In waiting for the BJP’s reply, the UPA hopes to comply with the CMP, which talked of trying to form a separate Telangana state “at an appropriate time” and after consulting political parties. “So we decided to have the process of consultation, Mukherjee added.
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