Telangana Talks to begin : More ministers ready to resign.

With the 48 hours bandh called by the T-JAC and TRS parties from Tuesday in protest for the Telangana statehood and action on the same by the Central Government and Congress team.

It was turn of more minister to submit their resignation to the assembly and lok sabha speaker on Tuesday, with the first person being MP Vijayshanthi, TRS who has always been pro-active and said that she will be first person to submit her resignation if the process begins.  She has faxed her resignation to the Speaker, joining her was TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, who also faxed his resignation to the speaker.

From Delhi it was the turn of the Telugu Desam MPs Nama Nageswara Rao and Ramesh Rathod also called on Ms. Kumar and tendered their resignations. With all parties joining hands and going forward with submission of their resignation 4 MLA of CPI and 2 from BJP which included the State President G. Kishan Reddy. 

J. Ranga Reddy (CPI), mentioned that the resignation submitted by parties which are non-congress will no put any pressure on the central Government and now Minister P Shankar Rao has also submitted his papers.

The tally has reached to 99 (out of 119 in Telangana). 12 Ministers and 14 MPs, including a Rajya Sabha member, too have resigned. Many ministers and MPs from Hyderabad had refused to resign and this led to demonstration of Telangana activists in the Assembly.

With the bandh going on peacefully across the city, there were some violence seen at the Osmania Campus, with Police coming into action, firing tear gas and lathi charge also arresting Nagam Janardhan Reddy from the Campus region.

The center has come into action, with several meeting being held across the board between the Congress spokeperson Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee on what action to taken.  The MPs and MLAs have also met Pranab Mukherjee and Azad in order to discuss on the statehood issue.  None of the resignation have yet been accepted by the party or speaker..

However, Azad has mentioned that instead of jumping to the conclusion, they will like to meet the people of Andhra Pradesh and know their views and feedback.  Then they will held all parties and decide on the outcome of the same.