UPA panel to study T-issue
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While confusion among political leaders continues regarding a decision on Telangana state, sources said that the issue had been referred to a newly constituted UPA Coordination Committee that would arrive at consensus.
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has been told by the Cong-ress president to include the Telangana statehood issue as part of its agenda.
The first meeting of the UPA Coordination Panel, held on Thursday, did not deliberate the T-issue, but only identified the subjects to be part of its agenda.
Meanwhile, Chief Mini-ster N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, speaking to TV channels in Khammam, said that the state Congress and its leaders would abide by whatever decision the party’s central leadership takes on Telangana, categorically stating that he had no received no ‘signals’ on the subject, unlike TRS leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao who claimed to have received ‘positive signals’ on the formation of Telangana state.
When Telangana Cong-ress MPs met Mr Pawar on Thursday in Delhi for a different purpose, he apparently told them that the UPA Coordination Panel would consider the T issue at the earliest, with the panel supposed to meet once a month.
It is likely to take up the issue at their next meeting in September.
According to sources, Mr Pawar suggested to the Telangana MPs that they meet leaders of other UPA constituents and convince them about the issue, which has so far been seized by the Congress and would now elicit the opinion of other partners of the UPA.
Telangana Congress MPs who had already met members of the Congress Core Commi-ttee several times to press for an early decision on Telangana, will now have to meet other party leaders and convince them.
But a few T Congress MPs, like Gutta Sukhender Reddy and Ponnam Prabhakar, claim that the Congress High Command has already decided in favour of a separate state.
It would announce its decision by the end of August, MP Madhu Yashki Goud said on Friday in Nizamabad, accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for stalling the issue.
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