A group of Congress MPs from Telangana (a southern Indian state carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014) met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on April 17 to demand that comments made by BJP legislator Tejasvi Surya about the state be removed from official parliamentary records. The delegation, which included six Congress members of parliament, also staged protests both inside and outside the legislature. The dispute underscores ongoing political tensions between the ruling BJP at the national level and regional parties and Congress over Telangana's identity and governance.