Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday accepted the resignations of 10 Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLAs who quit in protest against the seven-point terms of reference for the Srikrishna Committee appointed by the Centre to look into the Telangana statehood issue. With this,the number of resignations has mounted to 12 as the Speaker had earlier accepted the resignations of two MLAs,one from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the other from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The TRS MLAs were literally forced by the all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) which had announced that MLAs should prove their loyalty to the cause of a separate state by submitting their resignations. However,it is a big blow for TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao who wanted all the 119 Telangana MLAs of various parties to resign together,forcing a constitutional crisis. But neither the TDP nor the Congress MLAs joined him on this issue. The Speaker accepted the resignations an hour before the Assembly session started on a stormy note,with Governor E S L Narasimhans maiden address to the joint sitting of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council being disrupted by slogan-shouting Congress MLAs from Telangana and TDP legislators from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Violence on Osmania University campus HYDERABAD: Violence broke out again on the Osmania University campus where exams scheduled to begin from Monday were postponed after students clashed with police on Sunday night. While the All Students Joint Action Committee said they were protesting against the Centres terms of reference for the Srikrishna Committee and the delay in the creation of Telangana state,the officials said the students provoked the police and when a clash occurred,they called mediapersons. This was a ploy to force the university to postpone the exams, an officer said. ENS
