The Congress has expelled six of its Andhra Pradesh MPs who had incessantly blocked proceedings of Telangana bill in Parliament.In a last-minute change to its plans, the government has decided its proposal to create a new Telangana state will not be introduced in Parliament today. Lawmakers opposed to the Telangana state created chaos in both Houses again today. After the President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent for the Bill to be debated the government was advised that the Bill must first be brought to the Lok Sabha as it involved financial implication. The government is also hoping that a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday will allow it to broker the support of opposition parties. This Parliament session ends on February 21 and the Centre wants statehood for Telangana to be cleared so that it can claim credit in the election, and profit with voters in the region. The plan to turn the area of Telangana into India's 29th state is a politically incendiary one as the leaders led by Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy o from "Seemandhra" - the two non-Telangana regions of Andhra Pradesh - are vehemently opposed to the split.Lawmakers from Seemandhra have been disrupting Parliament every day, tearing up papers and shouting angry slogans, forcing adjournments. Seemandhra is worried about a downsizing of its share of water, power and revenue from Telangana, which includes the booming economy of the IT hub of Andhra Pradesh. To counter that, Seemandhra leaders unsuccessfully petitioned the government to turn Hyderabad into a Union Territory.

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