Chatterbox: Dharna in progress

The Prasar Bharati (PB) board and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting are locked in a battle

Events are moving at breathless speed in Andhra Pradesh, which hasn’t got a penny or special status in the 2018-19 Budget. Opposition leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s party, the YSR Congress (YSRC) had won eight Lok Sabha seats from Andhra in 2014, but subsequently three MPs joined the Telugu Desam Party. Now, after the Budget, Reddy has announced that the remaining MPs will resign from the Lok Sabha on April 6, the last day of the budget session, if the state does not get special status by then. What the MPs, who will lose their seats, say about this move is