Bangalore: Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Ambareesh on October 30 said that he
has decided to resign his Lok Sabha membership on the Cauvery issue.
He told reporters that he would submit his resignation to Congress president Sonia
Gandhi with a request to her to forward it to the Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi.
Ambareesh, elected from Mandya, said that he would not find fault with the decision
to release water to Tamil Nadu but decided to quit to keep his word to the people of
the district that he would resign Lok Sabha membership in the event of water
release.
Actor-turned-politician Ambareesh said he met Chief Minister S M
Krishna and informed him of his decision.
He said the Mandya district MLAs called on him and tried to persuade
him not to resign. Mandya district legislators need not quit their
membership, he said.
PTI
