'Cong has strength to face no-trust motion in AP'

Ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh on Monday said it has strength to face the no-confidence motion proposed to be moved by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

"I doubt if it (no-confidence motion) will be accepted at all. We have the strength to prove majority," state Congress president D Srinivas said told mediapersons in Hyderabad.

He was replying to questions about the TRS' decision to move a no-confidence motion against the government in the budget session of the assembly beginning on February 17.

Asked about the decision of the Telangana political Joint Action Committee that also comprises government employees, to start a non-cooperation agitation from February 17, Srinivas said the government was holding discussions with the staff.

Seeking to corner Telugu Desam Party, the TRS has said it will move a

no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the budget session and asked the main opposition party to support it in the same.

The TRS decision has come in the wake of a war of words between TDP and TRS. The TDP has alleged that the TRS is not sincere in achieving separate Telangana, and had a clandestine understanding with the Congress.

"We will move a no-confidence motion against the Congress government. If TDP is sincere in fighting against Congress, it should support us," TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao has said.