[1]Hyderabad: AICC general secretary in-charge of AP Congress Digvijay Singh on Monday made it clear that as soon as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi find time to convene the core committee meeting to discuss the Telangana issue, “the issue will be settled.”
Talking to the media in Delhi after a meeting with Osmania University Student JAC members, Singh said, “I met the Congress president and submitted my report.
We are waiting for inputs from Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha after which Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh will convene the core committee meeting to take a final decision on Telangana.”
He said he could not say when the core committee meeting would take place. “We are still waiting for road maps from the state Congress leaders, on whether to have a division or keep the state united, based on that high command will take a final decision,” Singh said.
Singh reportedly offered sweets to the OUJAC members saying that the high command was likely to announce a final decision soon. But the leaders refused to take the sweets preferring to hear sweet news on Telangana instead. He assured that they will get sweet news too.
The OUJAC leaders, D.B. Yadav, Pidamarthi Ravi, Marri Anil and others who met Digvijay Singh demanded that the Centre hasten the decision on Telangana issue.
They requested that the Congress core committee discuss the issue at its next meeting scheduled on July 12.
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