Cong treading a cautious path on Telangana issue

New Delhi, December 10: Congress is treading a cautious path on the sensitive issue of Telangana with the Centre’s decision to carve out a separate state from Andhra Pradesh provoking a political backlash there.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today assured agitated party MPs from non-Telangana regions, who had come to meet her, that any final decision on Telangana would be taken only after consensus.

A total of 18 MPs from the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of the state including late Chief Minister Y S R Reddy’s son Jagan Mohan Reddy and three Union Ministers Panabaka Luxmi, D Purnadeswari and A Sai Prathap met Gandhi to express their opposition to the bifurcation of the state.

–Agencies