HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLAs have been asked by their party president K. Chandrasekhar Rao to be available in New Delhi on Friday evening to discuss the strategy as to how to quit the Central Government.

A party MLA said on Thursday that a decision had already been taken that Mr. Rao and A. Narendra would quit the Union Council of Ministers. It would be implemented within a week unless there was some gesture from the Congress high command on Telangana which would prevent these resignations. However, there had been no such signs from the Congress so far.

He added that 12 MLAs were leaving tomorrow and some others, including important party leaders, would follow them on Saturday. He also said their game plan would revolve around shifting the blame on the Congress for parting of ways.

Another MLA maintained that Mr. Rao and Mr. Narendra would most likely resign from the Cabinet on August 21 or 22.

Party sources said it was likely that an issue would be created before the resignations were formally tendered. The plan was to organise a one-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi prior to the resignations. Mr. Rao would lead a group of TRS leaders at the strike camp.

The recent remarks of CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury that the Congress was looking for an alibi for not conceding the separate Telangana demand by pointing to Left's opposition to it had apparently come in handy for the TRS to launch an onslaught against the Centre.

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