Telangana ministers boycott Andhra Pradesh cabinet meeting

HYDERABAD: Ministers from Telangana region today stayed away from the Andhra Pradesh cabinet meeting which has been convened for approving the vote-on-account budget for 2014-15.

The ministers boycotted the meeting to protest Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy getting the Telangana bill rejected by voice vote in the last session of the state Assembly, a minister from Telangana told media.

The vote on account is slated to be presented today in the legislature, which commenced its four-day sitting this morning.

Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013, referred by the President to the Assembly, seeking its views, was rejected by the Assembly by a voice vote.