Five YSR Congress MPs to resign on Friday

All the five Lok Sabha Members of YSR Congress annnounced they will resign from Parliament and sit on an indefinite hunger strike at Andhra Bhawan here over their demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

The party also said that on one pretext or the another, the Lok Sabha Speaker is not admitting its no-confidence notice and has been denying a discussion on the motion."After the house is adjourned sine die tomorrow (Friday), all five of us will tender our resignation and sit on an indefinite hunger strike at the Andhra Bhawan till our demand is met," party MP Vara Prasadarao Velagapalli said.

Addressing a press conference here, the MPs blamed Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for failing to get the status for the state despite being in the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for four years.

They dismissed the state's ruling Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) MPs' protests inside Parliament for special status as mere "gimmick and antics".
The YSR Congress decision came after Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan did not take up the no-confidence motion for which the YSR Congress gave at least 12 notices on different occasions.