No fresh resignations on Telangana as protests continue

No fresh resignations on Telangana as protests continue

HYDERABAD, Feb 15 : An ultimatum by the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) to all MPs and legislators from Telangana to resign by Monday evening failed to have any impact as no fresh resignations were submitted, even as protestors staged noisy, at times violent, protests across the region for a separate state.

Assembly Speaker N. Kirankumar Reddy accepted resignations of 12 out of 15 legislators who put in their papers Sunday. The legislators include all 10 of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and one each from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The speaker has not taken any decision on the resignations of two Congress party and one Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) legislators.

JAC has asked all 119 legislators and 17 MPs of Telangana to quit, failing which a series of protest programmes would be launched Feb 19 culminating in their social boycott.