Four dissident Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislators from Telangana quit on Sunday even as the region's Congress and TDP legislators are set to resign on Monday seeking a separate state.
N. Janardhan Reddy, Harishwar Reddy, Venugopala Chary and Jogu Ramana sent the resignations to assembly Speaker N. Manohar from their hunger strike camp. They began a fast here, demanding unity among all parties and leaders fighting for separate state.
Ruling Congress MPs, state ministers and legislators reiterated that they will not go back on their resignations even as the party leadership continued its efforts for the second day to dissuade them.
Nine party MPs, including a Rajya Sabha member, paid their respects at the Telangana martyrs' memorial in front of the state assembly building before leaving for Delhi to submit their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Monday.
The members of the state assembly, including ministers, will submit their papers to assembly speaker N. Manohar while the members of legislative council will hand over their resignations to council chairman K. Chakrapani at 11 a.m.
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