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Cong determined to find a solution to Telangana
An intense process of consultations has begun over the Telangana issue with the Congress determined to find an early solution.
New Delhi: An intense process of
consultations has begun over the Telangana issue with the
Congress determined to find an early solution to the vexed
problem that has again created a volatile situation.
A senior party leader, who declined to be identified, did not rule out the possibility of a meeting of the Congress Working Committee as also an all-party meeting over Telangana statehood issue as part of the process to help find a way out before the winter session of Parliament.
"All options are open" on the issue, another party leader said at a time when Congress leaders from Telangana region as also TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao have again met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to press for a separate state. Andhra Pradesh is the only major state where the Congress is in power on its own and the ruling party is feeling the heat on the Telangana issue coupled with the parting of ways of YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Telangana leaders want the Government to announce a roadmap for fulfilling a commitment from the Centre offered on December 9, 2009, which was later withdrawn.
Central leaders are saying in private that the Congress had not promised a separate Telangana either in 2004 or in the 2009 election manifesto. The Prime Minister has already said that he would put the issue before the Congress core group and party chief Sonia Gandhi. The core group discussed the issue on Friday last when general secretary in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad submitted his report.
The Congress leadership has started grappling with the issue again as it has brought Telangana to a halt for last 20 days.
Congress is among the prominent parties which have not given their view on the Telangana issue so far to the government. While all major parties in Andhra Pradesh have been divided on regional lines on the Telangana issue, the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti is a sub-regional party with the single point programme of a separate Telangana.
PTI
A senior party leader, who declined to be identified, did not rule out the possibility of a meeting of the Congress Working Committee as also an all-party meeting over Telangana statehood issue as part of the process to help find a way out before the winter session of Parliament.
"All options are open" on the issue, another party leader said at a time when Congress leaders from Telangana region as also TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao have again met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to press for a separate state. Andhra Pradesh is the only major state where the Congress is in power on its own and the ruling party is feeling the heat on the Telangana issue coupled with the parting of ways of YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Telangana leaders want the Government to announce a roadmap for fulfilling a commitment from the Centre offered on December 9, 2009, which was later withdrawn.
Central leaders are saying in private that the Congress had not promised a separate Telangana either in 2004 or in the 2009 election manifesto. The Prime Minister has already said that he would put the issue before the Congress core group and party chief Sonia Gandhi. The core group discussed the issue on Friday last when general secretary in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad submitted his report.
The Congress leadership has started grappling with the issue again as it has brought Telangana to a halt for last 20 days.
Congress is among the prominent parties which have not given their view on the Telangana issue so far to the government. While all major parties in Andhra Pradesh have been divided on regional lines on the Telangana issue, the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti is a sub-regional party with the single point programme of a separate Telangana.
PTI