The Congress idea of separating two districts from Rayalaseema and merging them in Telangana to form Rayala Telangana has received a firm resistance from all both regions. Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samithi president Byreddy Rajashekar Reddy even staged a 52 hours hunger strike at Hyderabad, protesting Congress idea. He demands that if division of the state is inevitable, then made it three states-Andhra, Rayalaseema and Telangana but not as two-Andhra and Rayala Telangana.

YSRCP understood that Congress is cooking this crooked idea to weaken it in its strong hold area. So, it is also firmly opposing the Congress idea. Although, YSR Congress party is favoring a united state, it is not in a position to assert the same or even can’t oppose Telangana state formation for the sake party interests in both regions. So, it is simply opposing separating the two districts from Rayalaseema to form Rayala Telangana, but kept silent on bifurcation of the state.

But, today three of its MLAs and two MLCs have resigned to their posts in favor of Samaikyandhra. MLAs Srikanth Reddy, Adinarayana Reddy, Srinivasulu and MLCs Pullaiah and Narayana Reddy, who had a meeting at Kadapa today, have announced their decision of resigning to their posts. They demand the government drop the idea of dividing the state and let the state remain united.

However their decision of opposing bifurcation of the state may create an embarrassing situation for YSRCP in Telangana region in wake of Panchayat elections to be held soon. This is going to provide a weapon to TRS party to foil YSRCP attempts to enter Telangana region.