Telangana decision undemocratic and anti-people: YSR Congress

Vijayawada: The YSR Congress Party has termed the decision on separate statehood for Telangana by both Congress as "undemocratic and anti-people" and threatened to launch a mass movement against it.

Two former MLAs, Jaleel Khan and Adusumilli Jaya Prakash of the YSR Congress Party alleged the decision is "the conspiracy of a foreigner to divide and rule the people of this nation". The people of coastal Andhra Pradesh have not accepted the "unilateral decion" by Congress, they claimed. Alleging that union ministers, MPs and ministers from Andhra Pradesh "sold out" and lost their individuality, adding Congress leaders were responsible for what they termed a "tragic" decision. They demanded people`s representatives of Congress should resign or else the people would teach them a lesson. They announced the YSR Congress Party would begin a mass movement against the decision on Telangana. PTI