Cong asks AP leaders to cancel Delhi visit

Jan 27, 2010

New Delhi, Jan. 26: Expecting a forward movement on the Telangana issue shortly, the Congress asked its Andhra Pradesh leaders not to rush to Delhi to press for their resignations.

Sources said law minister and AICC general secretary incharge of Andhra Pradesh affairs, M. Veerappa Moily clearly told the state leaders, who were planning to reach the national capital on Tuesday, to stay put and let the party and the government work on the issue.
Sources indicated the forward movement could be an announcement of some kind of a committee to look into the vexed issue. The government is examining the scope and role of this panel and who may head it.
Though there is a preference for a retired judge, coupled with some experts on the subject, the option of a former bureaucrat heading the panel is also on the table, said sources. Congress sources said it is important to desist the state leaders go ahead with their resignations and it would only complicate the statehood issue further. Sources said dissolution of the state assembly would be the only option if the legislators were allowed to resigned en masse. The state leaders were pressing for the resignations as the Telangana joint action committee’s deadline of January 28 draws near.
This said sources would deflect the attention and the energies of the central leadership from the real issue at hand. The Congress is concerned about maintaining law and order in the state first and bringing about a consensus on the issue.

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