Infrastructure Minister Komatreddi Venkatreddy resigned from the State Cabinet on Saturday citing the failure of Congress High Command in making an announcement on formation of Telangana State. He also resigned from his assembly membership.
Accompanied with Bhongir MP and his brother K Rajagopala Reddy and Nakrekal MLA Chirumarti Lingaiah, the minister went to Raj Bhavan and submitted his resignation from the State cabinet to the Governor ESL Narasimhan. He requested the governor to accept his resignation. Later, he proceeded to the Legislative Assembly to submit his resignation from the post of MLA.
Komatreddi has announced long back that he would resign from his posts if the Centre fails to announce a favourable decision on separate Telangana. He was among 12 Telangana ministers who submitted their resignations from the MLAs post along with other legislators from the region on July 4. However, their resignations were rejected by Speaker Nadendla Manohar.
Although other ministers resumed their duties and also attended the cabinet meeting, Komatreddi neither participated in the cabinet meeting nor attended other official duties. He announced that he would resign from the cabinet by directly submitting his papers to the Governor.
After submitting his resignation to Assembly Secretary Raja Sadaram, Komatreddi went to Gun Park to pay homage to the martyrs of Telangana. Later, talking to reporters Komatreddi slammed the Centre and the Congress leadership for the delay in announcing statehood for Telanganana. He said the people of Telangana would not accept any more committees or meetings and would settle for nothing less than separate Telangana.
Komatreddi announced that he along with hundreds of supporters would start an indefinite fast in Nalgonda demanding statehood for the region. He also wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi demanding that the party announce its decision on Telangana soon.
Nakrekal MLA Chirumarti Lingaiah also resigned from his post demanding separate Telangana.