AICC general secretary and state's party affairs incharge Gulam Nabi Azad is coming to Hyderabad on Friday to hold consultation on the Telangana issue. This, comes days after Congress Telangana Congress leader and former minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has ended his nine-day fast on Azad's assurance that Centre would announce its decision after 10 November.

As Congress high command continues to grapple with the Telangana issue, PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana held consultations with senior leaders including Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday. Earlier, Botsa had also met Congress President Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel. It is not yet known what transpired in these meetings. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari, however, refused to answer questions on Telangana saying the AICC general secretary in-charge of the state is seized of the matter and he will respond to them.

With the controversies over the separate statehood of Telangana continuing to trouble the party, Congress has reacted with great caution even on the issue of Mayawati's reported plans to divide Uttar Pradesh into four parts saying the party favours a State Reorganization Commission to look into such demands across the country. To a specific question on whether the proposed Commission will also cover the issue of statehood to Telangana, party spokesperson Rashid Alvi on Wednesday merely said, "It will cover the entire country" and evaded further questions on the issue.