KARIMNAGAR: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Thursday that there was no consensus within the Congress on the issue of Telangana.

Addressing a press conference here, he criticised AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh for insulting people of the region by not stating his party's stand on Telangana and delaying a decision on the pretext of evolving a consensus.

Asking the Congress to introduce a Bill in Parliament on Telangana, he said that nearly two-thirds of MPs support separate State. He charged the Congress with making police officials scapegoats in the cricket kit scandal. On the printing of statutory warning on beedi packets, he said the NDA Government had passed the Bill for printing the sign on tobacco products in 2003.

Hyderabad Special Correspondent writes: TRS leader A. Narendra at a press conference here criticised the Congress stating that it was trying to evolve a political consensus on Telangana. Reacting to Mr. Singh's remarks, Mr. Narendra sought to know whether there was a consensus on any major national issue in the past.

Yet another `tactic'

The consensus plank was the latest tactic of the Congress to mislead people, he said and added that the Congress would never agree to the tabling of the Bill.

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