New Delhi, February 27: The issue of formation of a separate Telangana state is becoming ticklish for Congress with each passing day as party leaders from the sensitive region in Andhra Pradesh mount pressure on it to find an early settlement.
With the budget session of Parliament on, partymen from Telangana region appear to have made a common cause in Lok Sabha with members of TRS and TDP from the region.
The leadership has brought temporary truce asking the party MPs to lie low for the next few days till the presentation of the budget is over.
Party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have deliberated on the vexed issue time and again in the last few months including last Friday at the Congress Core Group meeting.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is in the capital holding deliberations with top party leaders on the issue and met Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmed Patel, UPA’s trouble shooter Pranab Mukherjee and AICC general secretary in-charge for the state M Veerappa Moily.
Reddy’s meeting with the senior leaders come in wake of the controversy over the Telangana issue deepening in the state when the budget session of Assembly is in progress there.
-Agencies