Botsa meets Azad on T

[1]

Hyderabad: AP Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana was called to New Delhi on Saturday for consultations with senior leaders on the Telangana issue and other matters.
Satyanarayana met Union minister of health and family welfare Gulam Nabi Azad, who is also in charge of AP affairs, and discussed both Telangana and Congress’ win in coop polls, the ongoing DCCB polls and other issues.
“I’ve discussed the T-issue. I am going to meet other leaders,” Satyanarayana said after the 45-minute talks, but refused to reveal any details.
Sources said other matters that came up during the meeting were Satyanarayana holding the dual post of transport minister and PCC chief, his threat to axe nine Congress MLAs for hobnobbing with the YSRC and his differences with the CM.
Satyanarayana had backed Telangana statehood once, saying there was nothing wrong in having two Telugu-speaking states when India have 10 Hindi-speaking states.
But he made a U-turn recently by attending the Samaikhya Andhra meeting convened by Congress MP Undavalli Arun Kumar in Rajahmundry. It remains to be seen just what the APCC chief’s stand on Telangana is now.
If sources are to be believed, the UPA may take a decision on Telangana in the midst of the budget session of Parliament or immediately after.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar too was recently summoned to New Delhi, where he had met several party leaders and reportedly opposed bifurcation, though he denied it later.Meanwhile, Mr E.S.L. Narasimhan too arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to attend Governors’ meet.
 
Bifurcation not possible, says rayapati
 
Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao said that the formation of a separate T-state was not possible now, and added that Seemandhra people who had settled in the T-region had set up many industries and developed the region. 
 
He made it clear that Hyderabad city developed after Seemandha people settled there. Sambasiva Rao was addressing the Vidyarthi Garjana meeting organised by student JAC leaders on the ANU premises on Saturday.
 
Speaking on the occasion, the senior Congress MP said that a majority of the people in the T-region favoured a united Andhra Pradesh and added that if the state was divided, development would come to a grinding halt.
 
He  reminded that due to the T-agitation, industrial units were shifting to other states, adding that if the state is divided, farmers would have to  face severe water problems.