AICC state party incharge Digvijay Singh has agreed to invite the Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha also for the party’s core committee meeting to be held at Delhi during the week.
Talking to the media, he said leaders of both the Seemandhra and Telangana regions had met him and expressed their views. He said he would submit a report to the High Command, mentioning about both the views. He said the three leaders would attend the core committee meeting and submit their reports.
Earlier reports said that Digvijay told the Seemandhra leaders that the Chief Minister and the PCC chief would attend the core committee meeting and asked them to submit their views to either of them. However, he said the Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha also would be invited for the meeting.
Leaders of the Telangana region met Digvijay Singh in the Gandhi Bhavan aired their views. It is learnt that they expressed doubts about only the Chief Minister and the PCC chief being called as both were from the Seemandhra region. They reportedly requested Digvijay to invite Damodara also as he hails from the Telangana region. Responding positively he has agreed to invite Damodara also. It is learnt that Digvijay told them that he was aware of the seriousness of the Telangana problem.
Speaking to the media later, government chief whip Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy said that they had informed Digvijay about the desire of the people of Telangana. He has expressed confidence that their desire would soon be fulfilled.
Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said that they told Digvijay Singh that Congress would only face damage by delaying decision on the Telangana issue. MP Ponnam Prabhakar alsos aid that if the Congress leadership does not take a decision on the matter immediately, it would suffer heavily.
Meanwhile Congress leader Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy has denied that Digvijay Singh said that the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was also carying the same DNA as the Congress. He told the media it was improper to make suh reports without confirming if Digvijay Singh said it or not.
He said they were all considering Jagan to be only a rival. He sarcastically said that even the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu and the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao also carried the Congress DNA. Sudhakar Reddy strongly condemned the TRS leaders for calling Sunday’s Telangana Sadhana Sabha as a drama. He said which was a drama and which was not would soon be known. He said TRS leaders were talking that way as they were afraid that their own shop would be closed. (NSS)