During the 4 hour heated discussions held at Congress MP Vivek’s house today, Telangana Congress leaders split vertically over quitting their posts. While the seven MPs have decided to quit their posts, MLAs and ministers have opposed their decision.

Parliament members Gutta Sukhendar Reddy, Madhu Yashi Goud, Ponnam Prabhakar, Rajayya, Komatireddy Raja Gopalareddy, Mandha Jagannadham and G.Vivek have decided to send their resignation letters to party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday through fax in speaker format. They have decided to enclose a letter giving the reasons for their resignations and explaining about fate of the party, if it prolongs the Telangana issue any further. A seven day grace period will be given to party high command to decide whether to declare Telangana or to let them leave the party also. This will obviously develop tremendous pressure on the Ministers and MLAs, who don’t want to quit now.

Minister K.Jana Reddy has opined that it is inappropriate for themselves to threaten the party high command, while it is likely to take favorable decision on Telangana issue. So, they differ with Congress MPs and decide to wait for a couple of weeks.

But, their decision to hang to their posts will worsen their position in the region as TRS and T-JAC has decided to concentrate their attacks on them from tomorrow onwards. TRS president KCR and his party leaders have already started a verbal war against these leaders. They have served an ultimatum to the Congress MLAs and Ministers asking to quit their posts immediately or face dire consequences.