Telangana Leaders To Resign

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  Telangana Congress Infighting Intensifies, 13 Members Quit Posts

  The intra-party wrangling in Telangana Congress appears to have intensified with as many as 13 PCC members submitting their resignations on Sunday, protesting the remarks of some senior leaders that those who "migrated" to Congress.

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  Telangana Leader Nama Nageswara Rao Quits Chandrababu Naidu's Party

  In a major blow to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Telangana, its senior leader and former MP Nama Nageswara Rao resigned from the party on Tuesday.

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  Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha 'Disgruntled' Men With 'Devious Plot', Should Resign: BJP Leader

  Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said today that senior leaders Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha should resign from the party if they have "problems" about governance and are not finding enough opportunities to raise issues at party forums.

• As Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns, Seemandhra's Congress leaders plan their next move

  Kiran Kumar Reddy resigned as the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister today and quit the Congress over the Centre's decision to bifurcate the state and create Telangana as India's 29th state.

• Amid protests and resignation threats, pro-Telangana leaders meet chief minister

  Ahead of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy's meeting with leaders opposed to the bifurcation of the state, pro-Telangana leaders met him this morning and requested him to not allow protests and "political forces" to work against the formation of the new state.

• Telangana: protests outside homes of ministers; will more Congress leaders resign?

  Under pressure from the people to force a rethink on a new Telangana state, Congress leaders from the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, will gather today both in Delhi and in Hyderabad, to discuss whether more of them should resign. Six Andhra Pradesh ministers and six other legislators had put in their papers yesterday.

• Decision on Telangana painful for me as well: Kiran Kumar Reddy to ministers

  Several Congress leaders in Andhra Pradesh are threatening to resign and there is a bandh in the entire coastal belt and in the southern region of Rayalaseema today in protest against the decision to create a new Telangana state. There are also reports of protests at several areas like Vijayawada and Tirupati. But Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy h...

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  Telangana likely to be announced India's 29th state today

  All the top leaders, across political parties, from the Telangana region are camping in Delhi in anticipation of an announcement. Most members of the Andhra Pradesh cabinet are also in Delhi, including chief minster Kiran Kumar Reddy, who, sources said, is upset but has been persuaded not to resign in protest.

• Telangana tangle: Will resign if Andhra Pradesh is split, Congress ministers to Sonia Gandhi

  The massive political conundrum for the Congress about creating a new Telangana state was exemplified again today with senior ministers from Andhra Pradesh writing a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi threatening to resign if the state is split. The leaders also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

• Five Congress leaders from Telangana quit party

  Five Congress lawmakers from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh resigned from the party on Wednesday night to press for the creation of a separate state.

• Telangana protesters clash with police; Congress leader meets Governor

  Angry pro-Telangana protesters in Hyderabad tried to break police barricades today as they made their way to Indira Park, where a large protest is being held against the Centre deferring a decision on whether Andhra Pradesh should be split to create a separate state. The protesters, who were shouting slogans, were taken away in vans by the police. ...

• 8 Congress MPs from Telangana suspended for disrupting Parliament

  The second half of the Budget Session of Parliament resumed today. The opposition, said to be armed with several issues, is all set to put the government on the mat. Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi's resignation and Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu's 'no reforms till 2014' statement are some of the issues that the BJP-led Opposition is likely t...

• Telangana steering committee meet today, decision on mass resignations likely

  Stumped by the rejection of their mass resignations by Andhra Pradesh Speaker, Telangana Congress leaders are mulling their next course of action, while their counterparts and leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said they are ready to put in their papers again.

• Congress lawmakers from Telangana to resign en masse on July 4

  Congress MPs, legislators and state ministers from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh  have said they will  resign en masse on July 4 in support of their demand for a separate state."The people of Telangana are expecting us to quit our posts for achieving separate statehood. Due to the delay in the formation of Telangana, there is an ...

• Don't resign: Congress to Telangana leaders

  Congress has told its leaders from Telangana region not to resort to resignations and indicated that the much-talked about mechanism on the issue will be announced soon.