CM asks MSR to reconsider resignation

Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today termed the reports in local media over the possibility of resignations of the entire ministers in the state Cabinet to facilitate revamping as baseless.

Sports and culture minister M Satyanarayana Rao resigned yesterday over a newspaper report which said that the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has prima facie found the minister's involvement in the temple land scam.

"I advised him to reconsider his decision," Reddy told reporters on Tuesday. He said that only a final report by the ACB can give a full picture of the alleged irregularities.

Meanwhile, the state Cabinet has approved a loan of Rs 161 crore to be taken from LIC by the State Housing Corporation to fund weaker section housing programme.

The chief minister, who refused to respond to the comments against his government at today's TRS rally in Warangal, left for New Delhi this evening for a meeting with TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao.

Speakers at the TRS meeting refused to buy state government's special package for the development of Telangana and reaffirmed their commitment to a separate state. NCP leader and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, Union ministers KCR and Narendra attended the rally.