AP: TDP lodges missing complaint against Speaker

In a novel protest against the recalcitrant Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nandendla Manohar, a senior rebel Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy has lodged a complaint with the police that the Speaker was missing.

Nagam Janardhan Reddy along with another party colleague Harishwar Reddy lodged a formal complaint with the Saifabad police station in Hyderabad on Monday that the whereabouts of the Speaker were not known and he was missing for many weeks.

 Manohar, who had gone to London to attend a Commonwealth Parliamentary meeting and later proceeded to Russia, is under fire from the Telangana members of Legislative Assembly for not accepting their resignations in support of separate state.

The Speaker, who before leaving for London had rejected the resignations of all the 100 Telangana MLAs, saying it was an emotional act, returned to the city on Monday.

Nagam Janardhan Reddy who along with three other TDP rebel and 11 Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLAs has already submitted a fresh resignation, held a dharna in the assembly courtyard on Monday demanding the immediate acceptance of the resignations. He alleged that the Speaker was staying away from the city only to avoid accepting the resignations.

 "Why is he not accepting our resignations," asked Nagam adding that he has no other option.