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Rebel MPs call off fast
Rebel MPs call off fast, Lagadapati Rajagopal's Sankalpa Deeksha. Minister for Primary Education and Convener of Seemandhra MLAs Forum S Sailajanath offered lemon juice to the three MPs.
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Hyderabad: Three rebel MPs -- Lagadapati Rajagopal, Sabbam Hari and GV Harsha Kumar -- ended their two-day ‘Sankalpa Deeksha’ on Saturday afternoon.
Minister for Primary Education and Convener of Seemandhra MLAs Forum S Sailajanath offered lemon juice to the three MPs.
Sabbam Hari reiterated that they would block the Telangana Bill when it would come up for discussion in Parliament during the special session of the Lok Sabha in the first week of February.
“We served no-confidence motion on the UPA. We may again move the motion. As many as 70 MPs are supporting our cause. We hope the number would swell by the time Telangana Bill is tabled in the Lok Sabha,” Hari explained.
He, however, said that their future course of action would be decided only after January 23, after seeing how the issue would be handled by the Assembly.
APNGOs president P Ashok Babu and Nallamothu Chakravarthy, President of Visalandhra Mahasabha made it clear that they would work assiduously and defeat the anti-integration candidates in the next elections.
Without naming union ministers from the Seemandhra region, they strongly criticised their ‘pro-division attitude’ which belied the hopes of millions of Seemandhra people”.
“They had identified the sitting MLAs and MPs of all the parties who have been working against the wishes of the people. They will have to bite the dust in the next elections,” Ashok Babu said.
Rajagopal said they had many more salvos in their kit which they would fire at an appropriate time. He announced that they would tour the State and explain to the people of their work and also the need to keep the state united.
Sailajanath criticised TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy saying that they were conspiring to divide the State in the garb of integrationists.
The MPs later drove to Secretariat and garlanded the Telugu Talli statue there.
