Congress in hurry to pass Telangana Bill
New Delhi: The Congress high command is learnt to have asked Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to come to New Delhi and discuss taking the issue of bifurcation of the State forward.
According to informed sources, AICC in-charge of State affairs, Digvijay Singh, and a few other leaders are said to have spoken to the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy over phone.
They are understood to have told him to ensure that the APNGOs call off their strike, by assuring them that all the concerns and issues raised by them would be addressed. He was also told the high command was determined to complete the process of bifurcation before the next general elections.
In Delhi he will be again asked to mend his ways or the high command may have to take the extreme step of removing him and imposing President rule.
According to our sources, the high command is in a hurry to pass the Telangana Bifurcation Bill in the winter session of par liament and announce the formation of Telangana on December 9, the birthday of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, exactly four years after the goof-up of P Chidambaram in parliament.
The Congress would not like to keep the issue dragging until the eve of the 2014 elections as it has to prepare for elections in both the states.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister is understood to have told some of his confidants that he would prefer to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi and once again make his voice heard opposing bifurcation of the state.
He is said to have told them that even if he meets other leaders, there would not be any change in his stand that the state should remain United.
News Posted: 17 October, 2013
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