Congress MPs from Telangana to target ministers on statehood issue

Congress MPs from Telangana are

joining hands with the Joint Action Committee to target

ministers from the region on the statehood issue. The MPs and the Telangana JAC, at a meeting here today,

reportedly decided to prevent ministers from the region from

taking part in official programmes related to Andhra Pradesh

Formation Day on November 1. They are also planning to organise protests in the

constituencies represented by the ministers to step up

pressure on them to take up the cause of a separate Telangana

state. The Telangana Joint Action Committee has already

announced that it would mount pressure on ministers from the

region to achieve statehood for Telangana. Congress MPs G Vivekananda, Gutta Sukhender Reddy, Manda

Jagannadh, S Rajaiah, Balram Naik, MLC K Dileep Kumar, TJAC

convener M Kodanda Rami Reddy, Telangana Praja Front leader

Gaddar and leaders of other Telangana outfits met at the

residence of MP Madhu Yaski here to discuss future course of

action after the recent Telangana March, which they claimed

was a "success". For the record, the MPs said they would carry forward

the agitation for a separate state along with the ministers

and legislators from the region. "We will fully support the action plan of the JAC. Our

fight for Telangana will stretch from the gallis (streets) to

Delhi," MPs Madhu Yaski, Sukhender and Jagannadh said. The action plan would be devised in such a way to exert

more pressure on the Centre to concede the statehood demand,

the MPs said. Meanwhile, the MPs demanded that all cases registered

against pro-statehood activists during the Telangana March be

withdrawn immediately.