Ministers from Telangana region on Monday stayed away from the Andhra Pradesh cabinet meeting which has been convened for approving the vote-on-account budget for 2014-15.
The ministers boycotted the meeting to protest Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy getting the Telangana bill rejected by voice vote in the last session of the state assembly, a minister from Telangana told media.
The vote on account is slated to be presented on Monday in the legislature, which commenced its four-day sitting Monday morning
Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013, referred by the President to the assembly, seeking its views, was rejected by the assembly by a voice vote.
