Throws down the gauntlet at Congress MLAs and Mps
Hyderabad, September 12, 2006The Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) president K.Chandrasekhara Rao on Tuesday announced his resignation to the Karimnagar Lok Sabha set and dared congress MLAs and MPs from Telangana to quit saying his party's elected representatives would follow suit. Within a couple of his announcement, the Minister for Sports M.Satyanarayana Rao also offered to step down from the Cabinet and quit as MLA suit on two conditions. He asked the TRS president to contest against him and take political sanyas in the event of the latter's defeat
Following his conditional offer, Satyanarayana Rao gave his letter of resignation from the Cabinet to the APCC president K Keshava Rao when the latter called on him at his resident. The APCC chief met the Chief Minister Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy and handed over the Minister's letter.
Speaking at a press conference, Chandrasekhara Rao said that he would be sending his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. His action was followed by the challenge thrown by Satyanarayana Rao that both should resign their seats and test their strength in Parliamentary by election from Karimnagar. The Minister said that the by election is not a referendum on Telangana and said people could come to their own conclusion. He added that it is a personal battle between him and Chandrasekhara Rao. The Chief Minister commented that he will react at the appropriate time.
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