A protest rally on Hyderabad's Osmania University campus to demand the resignation of all elected representatives from Telangana turned into a street-fight between the students and the security forces, leaving more than 25 students and mediapersons injured. Subsequently, the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the police out of the campus.
 
Congress MLAs from the Telangana region insist resignations are not the way forward. On the opening day of the Budget session, they staged a noisy walkout during the governor's address. Telangana Telugu Desam MLAs boycotted the assembly proceedings.
 
``We are ready. All the resignations are with me now. The moment the Congress MLAs resign, we also will,'' said N Janardhan Reddy, TDP leader from Telangana.
 
G.Sukhender Reddy, Congress MP from Telangana said, ``What is the necessity for resignations? After resignations, there will be elections and after elections, same result will come. We need to mount political pressure on government of India.''
 
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker has accepted the resignations of 12 of the 15 Telangana MLAs, including all 10 TRS MLAs.
 
To put pressure on the Congress MLAs and MPs to resign, the political Joint Action Committee has called for a social boycott of the elected representatives and also protest demonstrations in their native villages.