Even pink panther didnt know how to quit

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: Twelve MPs from Telangana, including the separate state movement leader K Chandrasekhar Rao, did not apparently know how to quit their jobs when they sent in their papers to Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar back in July.After five long months, the presiding officer found their papers not in order and so rejected the resignations.Parliament sources said the quit papers were not as per a rule which stipulates that the resignation should be in a certain format.It also bars the quitting member from stating any reason for his leaving.The disappointed dozen quitters are Ponnam Prabhakar, G Sukhender Reddy, Manda Jagannatham, S Rajaiah, P Balram Nayak, G Vivekanand, Suresh Shetkar and Madhu Goud Yakshi (all Congress), Ramesh Rathod and Nama Nageswara Rao (both TDP), and K Chandrashekar Rao and Vijayashanti (both TRS).The resignations of two other MPs, K R G Reddy and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, are under examination by the speaker.Rajamohan Reddy is a Congress MP who defected to YSR Congress.In the Rajya Sabha, chairman Hamid Ansari is yet to take a view on the resignation of Congress member K Keshav Rao, sources said.The speaker’s decision came with just a week to go to the winter session inaugural.Many of the MPs had continued to attend to parliamentary business despite claiming to be out.On Monday, they resolved to go to Parliament and make a show of their bitterness with the negative statements coming out of Delhi on Telangana.“We will not allow Parliament to function until the Centre and the Congress high command announce their decision on the statehood issue,’’ Keshava Rao had said.