HYDERABAD: YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday launched an indefinite hunger strike at his residence in Hyderabad complaintive the Centre’s “arbitrary” decision to divide Andhra Pradesh and said his party would challenge the Union Cabinet’s decision within the Supreme Court.

In deeksha camp Jagan said : “We can challenge the Centre’s decision (to divide AP) within the Supreme Court,”.

Noting that there have been “legal problems” concerned within the state’s division, he questioned however the Centre might notice solutions in six weeks.

Jagan said”We are opposing the unilateral manner during which the Centre is functioning. how will it plow ahead with the bifurcation method without a resolution within the state assembly?” .

He said :”We haven’t detected of an instance of state bifurcation without a resolution within the Assembly,”.

The Kadapa MP asked why the Centre should not change its decision “when there’s such a lot happening within the state”, once it might revoke the ordinance (aimed at protective condemned lawmakers) on the intervention of Congress vice chairman Rahul Gandhi.

This is the second time that Jagan is endeavor an indefinite quick on the problem.

Last month, he went on an indefinite hunger-strike within the Chanchalguda Jail, where he was lodged as an undertrial in an alleged disproportionate assets case against him, however it absolutely was frustrated on the fifth day.

Following the Union Cabinet’s approval of division of the state, Jagan, after being granted bail within the case, relaunched his agitation blaming the Centre and therefore the Congress for going ahead with the bifurcation method while not addressing the issues of “majority of people”.

Scores of YSRC activists gathered at his Lotus lake residence to greet Jagan as he began the stir at eleven.30am when paying homage at the bust of his late father YS Rajasekhara Reddy.

Party MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy and alternative leaders flanked Jagan on the specially erected ‘deeksha’ platform.