T-Congress men to fight in Delhi

With the Telangana employees withdrawing their agitation, the T-Congress leaders are looking towards the Congress central leadership for its stand on the statehood issue. However, the leaders are clueless about the party’s stand. “We only see newspaper reports claiming that the Congress is going to announce its stand in November, before the beginning of Parliament’s Winter Session, but so far there is no confirmation from party leaders about this,” said the AICC secretary and Congress MLC, Mr P. Sudhakara Reddy.
The meeting was attended by most of the Congress MPs from the region, who decided to intensify their agitation and even submit fresh resignations in order to build up the tempo of the movement. Though there was no official word on fresh resignations, the steering committee co-chairman Mr K. Kesava Rao told news persons that some key decisions were taken at the meeting which will be revealed later if necessary. Several MPs took Mr Jana Reddy to task for his public statement asking employees to call off the strike when Congress MPs and MLAs were arrested and sent to jail. Former minister Mr Komatireddy Venkata Reddy told the media that Congress leaders will continue to participate in all types of agitations organised by other partiy

A majority of T-ministers and MLAs stayed away from the three-hour Telangana Congress steering committee meeting which was held on Tuesday evening. The panchayati raj minister, Mr K. Jana Reddy, who is the co-chairman of the steering committee, was the only minister who attended the meeting. He declared at the end of the meeting that he will be a front-runner in the T-movement, and was even willing to sacrifice his position for the cause.