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Prime Minister says resolution on Telangana to be moved only after consensus
With the increasing protests mounting across the state and the consensus over statehood for Telangana in tatters, Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on Friday assured the agitated MPs from the Rayalaseema and Andhra regions that nothing will be done in haste. With this assurance, the MPs are now heading back to their constituencies with the mission of getting Congress legislators who have submitted their resignations to withdraw their protest and allow tempers to cool.
The resolution to be moved in the Assembly for creation of separate Telangana has been kept in abeyance for now, the Congress appears to have almost institutionalized the divide within the party by meeting Andhra and Rayalaseema MPs in one group and those hailing from Telangana separately. However, the MPs themselves maintained that there was no bad blood between them. Speaking to media persons after their meeting with the Union Minister, P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukharjee later, Lok Sabha member KS Rao said there was no rethink within the government on Telangana. There was all round acknowledgment among Andhra and Rayalaseema MPs that there could be no going back on this count.
Chidambaram on Wednesday night statement announcing the invitation of the process of creation of Telangana had not set a time frame. He pointed out that this is was a commitment made in the Congress manifesto and sought to underline the fact. The Union Ministers said that they told the government to bring the resolution on the assurance that they would support it.
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