In possibly the biggest such political action in India, 83 state legislators, including 11 state ministers, from the Congress, Telugu Desam, Praja Rajyam and Independents, and 10 MPs submitted their resignations as planned on Monday, plunging Telangana into turmoil and the Andhra Pradesh government into a crisis.

So, how will the resignations, if accepted, affect the Congress party's standing in Andhra Pradesh.

Here are the numbers.

In the 294-member AP assembly, the Congress, joined by the Praja Rajyam Part

Four more parliament members and 16 legislators from Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region resigned on Tuesday to step up pressure on the central government to carve out a separate state.

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The campaign for separate Telangana snowballed on Tuesday with TRS chief K. Chandrashekar Rao resigning his Lok Sabha seat as the number of MLAs from the region quitting the Andhra Pradesh Assembly we

The pro-Telangana campaign on Monday reached new proportions with four Congress ministers in Andhra Pradesh and 28 TDP MLAs from the region resigning their membership of the state assembly.

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In a bid to mount pressure on the Centre for an early decision on separate Telangana, 37 ruling Congress MLAs, including four ministers, and 28 TDP MLAs from the region on Monday resigned their membership of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

The Telangana issue took centre stage again on Friday with several developments and announcements. Ruling Congress MPs, state legislators and ministers from the Telangana region announced finally that they will resign en masse on July 4 in support of their demand for a separate state of Telangana.

Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to stay away from the all-party meeting convened by Union home minister P.

The Congress on Wednesday appeared to have piped down on the controversial yatra of Mr Jaganmohan Reddy beginning on Thursday with the party saying it was not worried and Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah backtracking on his tough statement asking ministers and legislators to keep away from the campaign.

The CBI on Wednesday arrested S.N. Sharma, suspended chairman of the Railway Recruitment Board, Mumbai and another senior officer in connection with the alleged multi-crore railway recruitment scam. Sharma was arrested for his role in the job scam in which his son and seven others had earlier been apprehended. G. Sethi,