New Delhi, Jan. 29: A day after Union home minister P. Chidambaram said a mechanism to look into the Telangana issue will be announced next week, speculation was rife in political circles that Justice B.N. Srikrishna (Retd) could head the committee.
However, AICC sources said no names have been finalised and a decision in the matter is likely in a couple of days. Congress sources said this committee is likely to comprise three to five persons.
When this newspaper spoke to Justice Srikrishna in Mumbai, he said that this was the first time he had heard anything about the matter.
Sources said the Congress core group, headed by party president Sonia Gandhi and attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, met on Friday and discussed the formation of this committee and the people who might be involved in it.
While the name of Justice B.N. Srikrishna (Retd) was at the top, the others being considered are Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Laxman, the sources said.
They said Justice Srikrishna, who headed the panel to look into the 1993 Mumbai riots, is known to be an unbiased person.
Age Correspondents