TDP MLAs should quit posts to mount pressure on Cong: TRS

Attacking the legislators of ruling Congress and main opposition TDP from Telangana region for not quitting their posts as decided by the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC), the TRS on Tuesday said their “true colours” have come out in the open now.

“We (TRS legislators) did not care for positions. We resigned in deference to the wishes of people. We are being congratulated and praised now. But the Congress and TDP (legislators) are not resigning. Telangana people now understand the truth,” TRS leader E. Rajender, who was party’s floor leader in the Assembly, told reporters.

Criticising Congress and TDP for allegedly blaming each other on the issue, former TRS legislator T. Harish Rao said the TDP legislators should quit their posts first to mount pressure on Congress leaders. “Congress and TDP should keep aside their differences. TDP leaders should resign, then we can make the Congress leaders bend,” he said.

Rejecting the terms of reference of Sri Krishna committee appointed by the Centre to go into the issue of division of Andhra Pradesh, the all-party JAC had asked the legislators from all parties to quit their posts to mount pressure on the Centre for taking immediate steps for Telangana’s formation.

Accordingly, 15 MLAs — 10 from TRS, two from Congress, one each from TDP, BJP and Praja Rajyam — submitted their resignations to the Speaker, who accepted the resignations of 10 TRS and one TDP MLA. The TDP, however, asked the Congress legislators to quit first to put pressure on the Centre.