Hyderabad, August 2: Seven Congress MPs resigned on Friday to protest against the creation of a separate Telangana state, but the ruling party was able to stave off a deeper crisis as four central ministers stepped back from their resignation threat.
Six Lok Sabha MPs and one Rajya Sabha member submitted their resignation letters this afternoon in a major embarrassment to the Congress leadership.
But the upset union ministers - Human Resource Development Minister Pallam Raju and Ministers of State Purandeswari, JD Seelam and Killi Kruparani - have been persuaded by party leader Digvijaya Singh to meet the Prime Minister and Congress president Sonia Gandhi tomorrow.