Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy has accepted 11 resignations out of 14 resignations tendered by the MLAs yesterday. Three resignations are still pending with him. These MLAs resigned in protest against terms of reference of SriKrishna Committee constituted to look into statehood for Telangana issue. Among the MLAs, whose resignations were accepted, 10 are from TRS including its floor leader E Rajender and one from BJP. The Speaker also accepted the resignation tendered by a TDP member C. Ramesh as his resignation tendered earlier was already in pending.<br/> <br/><br/>In the afternoon trade, the Bombay stocks exchange benchmark sensex was trading in red at 16065, down by 86 points a short while ago. Sensex initially gained over 74 points in the opening trade.Similarly, NIFTY of anational Stocks exchange was trading at 4805, down by 21 points.
News On AIR | February 15, 2010 2:24 PM
Andhra Speaker accepts 11 resignations