Lawyers Accost Delhi-bound T Congress MPs at Air

HYDERABAD: Pro-Telangana advocates want the Congress party’s public representatives elected from the region to treat their Wednesday’s visit to New Delhi to meet the party’s core committee their last. They have told the Congress leaders that they should come back with an assurance from the high command on Telangana state or resign from their posts and join the agitation.Members of the Telangana Advocates Joint Action Committee (TAJAC) met a group of Congress MPs at Shamshabad airport before their departure for Delhi on Tuesday.As K Keshava Rao, Ponnam Prabhakar and others tried to enter the airport through the VIP entrance, the advocates raised slogans and demanded that the leaders take note of their representation.Going near them, Rao gave a hearing to the advocates.“We told the Congress MPs that this should be their last visit to New Delhi. There should not be any more dilly-dallying on the Telangana issue. The Congress leaders should come back with a clear assurance from their high command or resign from their posts and join the separate state movement,’’ TAJAC co-convener T Sriranga Rao said.Meanwhile, police entered the scene and took 24 advocates into preventive custody. After completing the formalities for their at the airport itself, the advocates were let off.The advocates later met panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy at his residence and asked him to join the movement. “The TJAC took birth in Jana Reddy’s residence when the separate Telangana agitation took birth. After becoming a minister, Jana Reddy has been keeping mum on separate Telangana issue,’’ the TAJAC criticised. The senior minister assured the advocates that he would wait till July 5 before joining the movement.‘Cong MPs should quit’Meanwhile, Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has demanded that Congress MPs should make efforts to resolve the statehood issue. They should either bring Telangana or quit their posts. All TJAC constituents attended the steering committee meeting presided over by Prof Kodandaram here on Tuesday.