Supreme Court rejects plea to force Telangana resignations

New Delhi: Pro-Telangana MLAs in Andhra Pradesh got more time to reconsider their resignations on Monday. The Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by former member of parliament M Narayan Reddy that sought a directive to state assembly speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy to accept their resignations.

At least 139 MLAs had put in their papers, but speaker Reddy kept his decision in abeyance. Reddy had said since the Centre wanted to have a fresh thought on Telangana, he hadn’t accepted the resignations.

A bench of chief justice KG Balakrishnan and justices JM Panchal and BS Chauhan dismissed Narayan Reddy’s lawsuit and questioned his locus standi on the matter.

Meanwhile, the Centre said on Monday that a committee on Telangana will be announced this week and there will be no delay. “We are in the earliest part of the week. I said last week that early this week the committee will be announced. Wait for the committee to be announced,” home minister P Chidambaram told a press meet.

Faced with a directive from the party high command to withdraw from the all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee, Congress leaders from the region on Monday decided to wait till the announcement of the constitution of the committee. Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud said status quo would continue till the committee is announced by C