Hyderabad: After failing to convince the UPA from within, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has brought the statehood issue to the centrestage of Andhra Pradesh politics again through the 'Telangana Samara Sankaravam' -- Telangana Battle Cry in Siddipet, the hometown of TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Hours after Rao, who had quit as Union Labour Minister about two weeks back, put the ball in the court of the Congress at a public meeting, UPA sub-committee member and Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad announced that the committee headed by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee will speed up the process of evolving a consensus as committed in the UPA Common Minimum Programme.
Opining that in the present situaton only the UPA could deliver the goods, Rao, who had threatened to withdraw support to the UPA
Government soon after returning from New Delhi after exposing the Congress party before the people of Telangana through a series of public meetings in the length and breadth of the region, exhorted the UPA Government at the Centre and the Congress Government in the state to adopt resulutions to facilitate carving out of the new state from Andhra Pradesh.
Explaining to the people the efforts made by the TRS to enlist the support of major parties in Parliament, Rao claims the demand
for statehood had the backing of over 35 of the 42 parties in Parliament.
"The Congress is suffering from a mental block," he feels.
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