Telangana Congress MPs on Friday threatened to resign from Parliament if the Centre failed to come out with a statement in favour of separate Telangana by June 1.

The MPs made this demand during a meeting with Union minister and AICC in-charge of state Gulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi. They even refused a joint photo shoot with Seemandhra MPs, forcing Azad to hold a separate meeting with the latter group.

During the two-and-half-hour long meeting, T-Congress MPs presented him two letters that explained the situation in the region. In the first letter they said that the T delay was rendering them incapable of discharging their duties as MPs. "We would rather work as ordinary workers of the party than face the wrath of the people," the MPs noted.

The second letter dealt with the party's stand on Telangana from 2004 when the issue was included in the common minimum program of UPA-1 and said there was no option but to form a separate state.

The 11 MPs told Azad that they expected a statement after Assembly elections in five states get over in May, according to Nizamabad MP Madhu Yashki.

"We are keeping silent as finance minister Pranab Mukherjee recently assured us that the matter would be taken up once the elections in five states get over. He asked us to wait till May 13,'' Yashki told TOI from Delhi.

Another MP Sarve Satyanarayana said a joint meeting or group photo was not possible with Seemandhra MPs at this juncture. "We can't have a cup of tea with the MPs who worked against Telangana when students were committing self immolation.''

Convener of state MPs P Prabhakar said they had also brought the "lies and half truths," in the chapter 8 of Justice Srikrishna panel to the notice of Azad. Rajya Sabha member V Hanumanta Rao said the situation in Telangana was not conducive for MPs to move around in the region.

Later, Azad had a separate meeting with Seemandhra MPs. Ongole MP M Srinivasulu Reddy claimed that Telangana was not discussed. "Since it was the first meeting, Azad wanted to discuss developmental issues pertaining to the state." According to Reddy, Azad did not allow them to raise the T issue even though a couple of MPs tried to broach the subject. G Vinod from Telangana and Kavuri Sambasiva Rao from Seemandhra were the two notable MPs who did not attend the meeting.