The group of ministers from Telangana has heightened the pitch of their confrontation with the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, by threatening to quit their posts in support of the ongoing agitation.
The ‘pressure group’ that includes the home minister, Ms P. Sabita Reddy, Mr K. Venkata Reddy (IT), Ms K. Sunitha Lakshmareddy (minor irrigation), Mr D. Sridhar Babu (higher education), Mrs D.K. Aruna (small industries) and Mr B. Sudarshan Reddy (medical education) has been vigorously opposing the Chief Minister’s strategy on Telangana.
On Monday, the gulf between the group and the Chief Minister widened after police caned students in Osmania University.
They rushed to the Chief Minister and lodged their protest. They wanted Mr Rosaiah to recall police from the campus and the home minister also supported the demand for the transfer of IPS official, Mr Stephen Ravindra.
Before approaching the Chief Minister, Ms Sabita is said to have expressed her intention to quit as home minister as no senior officer was heeding her words at this crucial hour.
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The IT minister also expressed his readiness to resign saying there was no meaning in his clinging to the post when students of Telangana were chased and beaten up.
However, the political adviser, Dr K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, stepped in and pacified the agitated minister asking him to follow the spirit of collective responsibility of the cabinet.
He told him not to take students’ criticism of ministers to heart.
The pressure group was instrumental in the Chief Minister’s decision to recommend an amendment to the Presidential Order on free zone issue.
There were also heated discussions between ministers from other regions and the pressure group at the informal cabinet meeting held on Sunday.
Other Telangana ministers such as Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Dr J. Geetha Reddy, Mr D. Nagender, Mr Mukesh Goud, Mr D. Rajanarasimha and Mr R. Venkata Reddy have sought to distance themselves from the pressure group.
These ministers had earlier turned down the proposal to go to Congress chief, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, as a delegation to persuade her to resolve the Telangana issue.
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