Telangana legislators must submit resignations again: TRS

HYDERABAD: Describing the rejection of mass resignations of MLAs from Telangana by Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker as "undemocratic", TRS today demanded that the legislators submit resignations again to mount pressure on the Centre over the statehood issue.

"Due to some efforts and discussion, MPs, MLAs, all Telangana children, cutting across party lines, have quit. Unable to tolerate that unity, they made the Speaker reject the resignations. But it is our duty to safeguard this rare unity (of political leaders in the region). So all must quit again. We have to put the sword on Delhi's neck," TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao told a gathering at the party office here.

He said leaders of non-Telangana regions have always tried to ensure Telangana political leadership is not united.

MLAs, MPs and MLCs from Telangana had submitted resignations from their posts en masse earlier this month to mount pressure on the Centre towards accepting the separate statehood demand, but Speaker N Manohar rejected the resignations of MLAs last week.

Taking exception to the reported comment of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy that the government would go ahead with the recruitment test of police sub-inspectors, the TRS president demanded that the exam be not conducted until the deletion of Clause 14 (F) of Presidential Order that made Hyderabad a free zone for police recruitment in the state.

"All Telangana supporters, including Congress leaders, want the SI exam postponed. The Assembly itself passed a resolution seeking deletion of 14 (F). Still, the chief minister says he will go ahead with SI recruitment. I warn him that he will be responsible for any developments if the SI exam is conducted without deletion of 14 (F)," he said.

Telangana supporters contend that Clause 14 (F) hurts the region's interest in terms of recruitment.