New Delhi, Mar 3 (ANI): Four Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) MPs today resigned from Lok Sabha over separate Telangana issue.

TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao and three of his colleagues - Vinod
Kumar, Ravindra Naik and T Madhusudan Reddy - submitted their
resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.

All walked out after submitting their resignation. Later, the BJP and the Shiv Sena also staged walk out on the matter.

Before submitting the resignation, Chandrashekhar alleged that their
demand on the issue has not been fulfilled, although consensus had
emerged.

The people of Telangana have been betrayed, he said.

Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani also said that there should be
a debate on the issue of carving separate state of Telangana in Andhra
Pradesh.

Earlier, Advani had said that the BJP is ready to extend its support
for a separate state as it believes that new states can be carved out
of the bigger states in order to speed up development.

The TRS, contested state assembly polls in 2004 in alliance with the
Congress, which they feel has betrayed the promise to grant separate
statehood to Telangana region, comprising 10 districts of Andhra
Pradesh, including Hyderabad. (ANI)