T-Congress leaders to meet Sonia next week

HYDERABAD : Senior Telangana Congress leaders continued their parleys ahead of their proposed visit to Delhi in the first week of February.
Former MP S. Rajeswara Rao on Tuesday hosted lunch for the senior Congress leaders at his guest house on the city outskirts. CWC member G. Venkataswamy, V. Purushottam Reddy, APSRTC chairman M. Satyanarayana Rao, MLCs -- K.R.Amos, Palvai Goverdhan Reddy and B. Kamalakar Rao and Nizamabad MP Madhu Yaskhi attended.
While the Congress leaders were tight-lipped about the outcome of the meeting, sources said that the leaders discussed the modalities of presenting their case before the high command.
The meeting is believed to have unanimously decided that the leaders should insist that he high command concede Telangana at any cost when the meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi materialises in the first week of February.
Sources said the meeting felt that when parties like BJP, CPI and others had spelt out their stand and the TDP was seriously discussing the issue within the party, the Congress would be isolated if it failed to decide on statehood.
They were highly critical of the remarks made by Marketing Minister M. Mareppa. Deriding his statements, they said the Minister was belittling the Telangana leaders only to save his skin as he was sure to be dropped from the Cabinet in the next reshuffle. They pointed out that it was unbecoming of a Minister to utter such words against party colleagues.


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