Chidambaram Disappoints Telangana Congressmen

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has squarely disappointed a posse of Congressmen from Telangana, who met him today in Delhi to put pressure on the government to speed up separate statehood process. The group of Telangana leaders that met Chidambaram consisted of 10 state ministers, 11 t-region MPs and around 35 MLAs, MLCs and formers representatives of people.

The posse of 56 people were very disappointed after meeting the Home Minister. The reasons that caused disappointment were firstly, Chidambaram spoke to them for only 13 minutes and then left saying that he has to attend Lok Pal bill meeting. Secondly, Chidambaram has squarely told the Telangana leaders that there is nothing he could do in this matter. He is not empowered to take any decision alone pertaining to Telangana. He has made those Dec.9 and other announcement on behalf of the government and none of them was his personal decision. It is for the central government that has to take the decision. However, he suggested the leaders to meet Ahmed Patel and ask him to convene an all party meeting at the earliest to decide on the Telangana issue. The group of T leaders are going to meet the senior Congressman and Union Finanance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at 8 PM today.