HYDERABAD: Telangana Congress MPs do not appear to embarrass the Congress leadership with their demand for an announcement on Telangana at a time when it is fighting a battle with Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.The MPs have decided to wait till the end of September to press for a statement on Telangana and wrote a letter to this effect to AICC general secretary in charge of AP Congress affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad.This should come as a reprieve to the Congress high command since Jagan Mohan Reddy is making all-out efforts to wean away as many MLAs as possible from the Congress, including those in the Telangana region, to rock Kiran Kumar Reddy’s boat.Though the MPs would not say they had deferred the agitation to help the party deal with Jagan Mohan Reddy, it is obvious that they do not want to make the situation tough for the high command.In the letter that the MPs wrote Azad, they urged him to complete the process of consultations that he had initiated to bring about a consensus on Telangana in the Congress before the end of September and come out with a decision on Telangana.“We want him to abide by the UPA’s decision announced on December 9, 2009 on Telangana issue,” they said.The MPs told him in unambiguous terms that if the party did not come out with a statement by the end of next month, they would bring pressure on the Lok Sabha speaker to accept their resignations.“There is no going back on our resignations,” Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar said.Nalgonda MP Gutta Sukhender Reddy said that their action plan to put pressure on the Congress would begin in October.“I am sure no one will sail along with YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.All MPs and MLAs from Telangana are committed to the Telangana cause,” Sukhender Reddy said.
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