YSR Congress party has called for 72-hour sh
utdown in Seemandhra to protest the decision taken by the union cabinet to carve out separate Telangana state.
utdown in Seemandhra to protest the decision taken by the union cabinet to carve out separate Telangana state.
Addressing
a press conference Thursday evening, YSR Congress party president Y.S.
Jaganmohan Reddy said the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh had pained
him. He vowed to take all steps to stall the bifurcation.
Jagan,
as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, said his party would also
approach the court to challenge the central government’s action.
Blaming
Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for the decision, he demanded
that all MPs from Seemandhra to quit to pull down the Congress-led
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre.
He also demanded resignations of all state ministers to create a political crisis in the state to stall the division.
Claiming
that other states were divided after their respective assemblies passed
a resolution, Jagan wanted to know why the central government deviated
from this procedure to initiate the process for bifurcation of Andhra
Pradesh by passing a resolution in the cabinet.
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