No flip-flop on Telangana, Jan 5 meeting for mechanism: HM

New Delhi, December 31: Dismissing the charge of “flip- flop” on the part of Centre on Telangana issue, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the January 5 meeting of political parties from Andhra Pradesh is to devise a “mechanism and roadmap” on resolving the problem.

“The January 5 meeting is the first step in the consultations. In the first step we have called the recognised parties in the state to devise a mechanism and a roadmap (on the issue,” he told a press conference, the state chief minister has been invited to the meeting in his official capacity.

He said as the consultation process progresses the issue of involving people beyond the 8 recognised parties could be thought of.

–Agencies