TDP president Chandrababu Naidu is meeting Governor E S L Narasimhan this evening to seek dismissal of tainted ministers in the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government.

TDP president along with a large delegation of MLAs and MPs will demand that the Manmohan Singh formula should be applied in AP as well, after PM had sought resignation of Rail and Law Ministers tainted in the railway bribery case and CBI coalgate issue.

Telugu Desam will launch a fresh campaign on Monday to mount pressure on the State government seeking the resignation of ‘tainted’ ministers named in the assets case against Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and those who allegedly violated provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act.

The TDP had stalled Assembly proceedings in March with the demand that five of six Ministers – Dharmana Prasada Rao, P. Sabita Indra Reddy, Ponnala Laxmaiah, Kanna Laxminarayana and J. Geeta Reddy – who were served notices by the Supreme Court for issuing 26 controversial government orders be sacked. Of them, Prasada Rao and Ms. Sabita Indra Reddy also figured in two of the five charge-sheets filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case against Jagan.

The TDP got support from within the Congress as Rajya Sabha member V. Hanumantha Rao and MLA P. Shanker Rao also demanded the dismissal of said ministers.