Telangana: JAC asks public reps to resign by tomorrow

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of various organisations in Telangana today asked the public representatives in the region to resign in support of the separate state demand by tomorrow, failing which it would mount pressure on them through various means.

The committee decided to tom-tom (propagation) in villages and elsewhere for five days, beginning Tuesday, about the reluctance of the public representatives to quit, JAC convener C Kodandaram told reporters here.
    
From February 17 to 20, the committee leaders would submit memoranda to all the public representatives, from a ward member to MP, urging them to quit their posts.

The JAC convener said relay hunger strikes would be held in front of the houses of public representatives from February 21 to 27. A social boycott would be imposed on the public representatives from February 28, he said.

Rejecting the terms of reference of the Srikrishna Committee appointed by the Centre to look into the issue of division of Andhra Pradesh, the JAC asked the legislators to start the process of submitting their resignations from today.

Triggering a crisis by en masse resignations of legislators, the committee would make the Centre to take immediate steps for formation of Telangana state, the JAC said.

Earlier in the day, 15 MLAs from the ruling Congress, TRS, TDP, BJP and Praja Rajyam submitted their resignations to the Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker.

The speaker had rejected the resignations of the MLAs submitted earlier on the ground that they were not in proper format.