Only half of T Cong MLAs ready to quit

HYDERABAD: For the record, the Congress has 51 MLAs from Telangana and only half of them have decided to quit. The nine ministers who are threatening to resign are Jana Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, D K Aruna, K Venkat Reddy, Sunita Laxma Reddy, J Geeta Reddy, Basavaraj Saraiah, R Venkat Reddy, and D Sridhar Babu. The ministers who stayed away from Friday's meeting are deputy chief minister Damodar Raja Narasimha, home minister Sabita Indra Reddy, P Shankar Rao, and city ministers Danam Nagender and Mukesh Goud.
Though deciding to resign from the Assembly, some of them were of the view that they would continue with their ministerial responsibilities. However, the majority felt that the ministers should stop attending office from 11 am on July 4 once they submit their resignations.
Of the 12 Congress Lok Sabha MPs from Telangana, those who agreed to resign are G Vivekanand, Manda Jagannatham, Ponnam Prabhakar, G Sukhender Reddy, K Rajagopal Reddy and S Rajaiah. Those who stayed away are S Jaipal Reddy, Madhu Yaskhi Goud, Suresh Shetkar, Sarvey Satyanarayana, Balram Naik, and Anjan Kumar Yadav. Of the Rajya Sabha MPs, only Keshava Rao declared that he would quit. V Hanumanth Rao and Nandi Yellaiah stayed away from the meeting.