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All 13 Andhra Pradesh ministers withdraw resignations | All the 13 cabinet ministers from Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday decided to withdraw their resignations after the Centre's announcement on holding discussions with all recognised political parties of the state. State Information Minister Geeta
Reddy said the ministers are satisfied with the decision of the Centre to initiate
the process of discussions. On Wednesday, the Union Home Minister P
Chidambaram
sent a letter of invitation to all eight recognised political parties of the state-Congress,
BJP, CPI, CPM, PRP, TDP, TRS and MIM. "We met APCC President D. Srinivas
who asked
us to withdraw the resignations. We have decided to withdraw our resignations,"
said Geeta Reddy. On December 23, the ministers had resigned after
Chidambaram's
announcement to put the Telangana issue on the backburner saying he would initiate
wide ranging discussions on the issue. Earlier on Dec 9, Chidambaram had
announced
the initiation of the Telangana state formation process. Geeta Reddy said the
ministers had last week submitted a representation to the Congress high command
and "we never expected that they will respond so quickly." She thanked Congress
President Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders including Union Finance Minster
Pranab Mukherjee and political secretary to Congress president Ahmed Patel for
taking the initiative to solve the issue. The Centre's decision came after detailed
deliberations in the government and at the highest level in the Congress in the
last few days. All parties were divided and even public representatives belonging
to these parties were split on regional lines. The all-party Joint Action Committee,
formed to spearhead the separate Telangana agitation, and the TRS welcomed the
announcement and decided to attend the meeting convened by the Centre. |
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