New Delhi: TRS leader Chandrasekhar Rao has threatened to resign from the Lok Sabha, saying that the congress could not be trusted. He had earlier resigned from the UPA government.
TRS and Shiv Sena MPs protested on issues of separate Telangana and farmers' suicides during President Pratibha Patil's maiden address to the joint sitting of Parliament on Monday.
As soon as the President started delivering the address in the historic Central Hall of Parliament, TRS leader K Chandrasekhara Rao and three other party members from Lok Sabha began shouting slogans "Jai Telangana".
Holding placards demanding creation of separate Telangana state, they soon staged a walkout. TRS is spearheading the agitation over the issue and has even threatened that its members would resign from Parliament early next month if Government failed to take positive steps.
As the President was at the fag end of her address, Shiv Sena leader Anant Gite protested over the failure to have any mention of farmers’ suicides in it. Despite suicides being such a burning issue, how is it that there is no reference to the matter in the address?, he asked.
RPI leader Ramdas Athawale also stood up at that time apparently to raise some issue, but Parliamentary Affairs Minister PR Dasmunsi succeeded in restraining him. JD-U leader Prabhunath Singh was heard complaining that it was an insult to Hindi when Vice President Hamid Ansari read just a brief part of the address in Hindi.
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