All eyes are now on AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi. With Congress core committee deciding to take the opinion of Rahul Gandhi on Telangana during its meeting slated for Tuesday, intense debate is going on among Congress leaders from the state on what could be the stand of Rahul.
While party leaders from Telangana say Rahul is sympathetic towards the Telangana demand, Seemandhra leaders feel the AICC general secretary is against division of the state.
“If at all Rahul is for bifurcation of state, the Congress high command would have gone ahead with its promise of forming the T-state. The indecisiveness of the party leadership itself indicates that Rahul is not backing division of the state outright,” a senior leader from Seemandhra, who recently met the AICC general secretary, said.
Rahul Gandhi held one-on-one meetings with some key leaders of the party from both the regions some days ago to know the party position in the state and the impact of the Telangana decision on the party.
Apart from chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana, Union ministers D Purandheswari and Sarve Satyanarayana, Rajya Sabha members V Hanumantha Rao and KVP Ramachandra Rao, MP Madhu Yashki Goud, MLC Paladugu Venkata Rao and Hyderabad former mayor Banda Karthika Reddy are some of the leaders from the state who met Rahul and expressed their opinions.
Sources said that during the meetings, Rahul asked party leaders about the best solution for the Telangana issue.
However, like his mother and AICC supremo Sonia Gandhi, Rahul too kept his cards close to his chest.
“It is not easy to read the mind of Rahul Gandhi. He only takes our opinions on every issue, but does not reveal his mind,” Paladugu Venkata Rao and Karthika Reddy told Express.
Rajya Sabha member Plavai Govardhan Reddy said as the party’s brainstorming session (Chintan Sivir) is being held at Jaipur from January 18 to 20 to chalk out the party’s action plan for 2014 general elections, Congress is also likely to finalise its decision on Telangana during the meeting. He was speaking at the Telangana Congress leaders’ meeting here on Friday.
Panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy who met AICC state in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad in Delhi on Saturday is confident that the party leadership would take a positive decision over the Telangana issue.
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