News is that seven TDP MLAs are drawn towards the BJP. Mainly Telangana Forum leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Revuri Prakash Reddy, Jaipal Yadav, L Ramana, Kottakota Dayakar Reddy, Seeta Dayakar Reddy, Ramulu are the MLAs contemplating a move.
Expelled Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal, who shot into notoriety with his pepper spray episode in Parliament, announced that he was quitting politics.
If at all there is anybody who has to be blamed for the passage of Telangana bill in such a dictatorial manner, it must be Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu.
It was virtually a bulldozing of the Telangana bill by the UPA government in Lok Sabha on Tuesday; of course, with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the principle opposition.
A cabinet minister and three legislators of the ruling Congress party in Andhra Pradesh Tuesday resigned to protest the state's proposed bifurcation.
In a last ditch effort, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu today appealed to BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to "use his good office" to keep Andhra Pradesh united till an amicable solution is reached on the issue of creation of separate Telangana.
More than Seemandhra Congress MPs, Seemandhra union ministers and even YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy or for that matter Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, it is Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu who is said to be making hectic lobbying to stall the Telangana Statehood process.
With just four days left for the conclusion the last session of the Parliament during the UPA-II regime, the Congress party is hell-bent on getting the Telangana bill passed at any cost.
