The ministers and MPs will meet in Parliament House today and are expected to tender their resignations.
Their names are: Lagadapat Rajagopal , Kanumuri Bapiraju, Sai Pratap, Vundavalli, Anantha Venkata Rami Reddy, Harsha Kumar, J D Seelam, Purandeswari, Killi Krupa Rani, M Pallam Raju, KVP Rama Chandra Rao , Magunta Srinivas Reddy.
Meanwhile, angry protesters in Anantapur knocked off a statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, pro-united Andhra supporter students sat on 72-hour hunger strike in Visakhapatnam and people resorted to 'rasta roko' in Krishna district to protest the Centre's decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and create a separate Telangana state.
In Delhi, the ruling Congress party made it clear that Telangana was now a settled issue and there was no scope for reconsideration, even as legislators in Andhra Pradesh today resigned en masse in protest.
Protests rocked Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions for the second day on Thursday with united Andhra supporters taking out rallies and preventing public transport buses from plying.
Protests were reported in the districts of Krishna, East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Kadapa and Anantapur. While the hunger strike launched by students in Visakhaptnam at Andhra university entered the third day on Thursday, lawyers refrained from attending courts on Thursday also as a part of their 72-hour boycott in Visakhapatnam and other districts as well.
