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Today's all-party meet convened to share Srikrishna report:
Congress
Thursday January 06, 2011 06:46:07 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: With its
leaders from Telangana and other regions of Andhra Pradesh having
different views on Telangana, Congress central leadership
Wednesday said the all-party meeting called by Home Minister P.
Chidambaram was only aimed at sharing the Srikrishna report and
parties will get time to give their opinion on the issue.
Chidambaram has called a meeting of eight parties from the state
for consultations before making public the report of the
Srikrishna committee, which looked into the demands for and
against a separate Telangana state.
The five-member panel headed by former Supreme Court judge B.N.
Srikrishna submitted its report to Chidambaram Dec 30.
Ahead of Thursday's meeting, party MP K. Sambasiva Rao and state
legislator Uttam Kumar Reddy, who hail from coastal Andhra and
Telangana regions, had separate meetings with Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee.
The two leaders are likely to represent the Congress at the
all-party meeting. They said Mukherjee told them that meeting has
been convened to hand over the report to political parties who
will get time to go through it. They said Mukherjee has told them
that there would be another meeting of political parties in about
three weeks to discuss the report.
Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily, who is party in-charge of Andhra
Pradesh, was also present during the meetings.
The Congress in Andhra Pradesh is virtually divided on regional
lines on the ticklish issue of statehood. Party sources said that
the leadership was keen to send a message of dealing with the
emotive issue in an even handed manner without annoying any
section of opinion in the state which has contributed handsomely
to the Congress tally in the last two Lok Sabha polls.
The Srikrishna committee was set up in February to study, among
other things, the situation in Andhra Pradesh following protests
for a separate Telangana state and the counter-protests that
paralysed the state.
The committee met over 100 groups including political parties,
intellectuals, politicians and retired bureaucrats and visited all
the 23 districts of the state.
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