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No decision yet on Ministers' resignations: YSR

Special Correspondent

Chief Minister plays down standoff

HYDERABAD: The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, refused to indicate on Tuesday as to when he would decide on the resignations submitted more than a week ago by five Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Ministers of his Cabinet to the Governor.

"I have informed the Governor that I need time to consider these resignations. I am still at it," he told reporters after his return from an eight-day official tour of Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

The Chief Minister sought to play down the standoff between the Congress and the TRS as also the importance of his meeting with the TRS chief, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, arranged by the AICC. "There are eight crore people in Andhra Pradesh and I am willing to meet anyone of them," he said. Dr. Reddy described Monday's statement of the Union Minister, A. Narendra, as an attempt to ask his party workers to spread Goebbelsian propaganda that he was anti-Telangana.

"It is for you to judge," he said when asked to comment on Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao's remarks against the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, and against him.

He also dismissed lightly a suggestion that he had `managed' another TRS Minister, S. Santosh Reddy, and prevented him from resigning.

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