AP special status: YSRCP go on indefinite hunger strike, submits resignations

April 06, 2018 21:18

Fight for granting special status to Andhra Pradesh continued as Members of Parliament of Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party on Friday sat on an indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi.

The MPs, staged a protest near Andhra Pradesh Bhawan, submitted their resignations to Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan earlier today.

Earlier in the day, the MPs from Telugu Desam Party staged a 'dharna' (sit in protest) at the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's chamber at Parliament, who wasn't present in her office.

Also, in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada city today, Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena and Left Parties organised a padyatra (foot-march) for the same.

Following the resignation of YSR Congress Party MPs from Lok Sabha, party president Jagan Mohan Reddy challenged Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu to make his MPs resign.

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