Amaravati, Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and Visakhapatnam North MLA, Ganta Srinivasa Rao, on Thursday met Andhra Pradesh Speaker Tammineni Sitaram and requested him to approve his resignation.

"Today I met AP Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram and requested him to approve my resignation. The Speaker informed me that he would take the right decision soon," said Rao, who resubmitted his resignation in proper format over a month ago, protesting the Central government's decision to sell the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP).

A couple of days back, Rao met veteran Congress leader Vundavalli Arun Kumar and former CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshminarayana on how to intensify the VSP privatisation protest movement into a bigger people's movement.

They discussed how to make it a non-political joint action committee and proceed with the movement.