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TDP’s Telangana stand soon

Special Correspondent

Party likely to favour statehood for region, say sources

Core panel to hold meetings from September 27
Polit bureau to study panel’s report in Oct. first week

-Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

In command: TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu presiding over the party’s polit bureau meeting.

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party may finally unveil its much-awaited stand on separate Telangana by October 15, by which time it expects the core committee studying the issue to submit its report to the polit bureau.

The party’s polit bureau which met on Monday was briefed by the core committee on the progress of its ongoing opinion-gathering exercise.

The committee is expected to hold the last round of meetings with the State Committee members and other important functionaries for three days, beginning September 27. A couple of days after September 29, the report would be prepared and placed before the polit bureau which could meet to consider it in October first or second week, depending on the availability of party president N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Party sources said barring the semantics, the stand would be more or less favouring Telangana, going by the views expressed by MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other people’s representatives to the core committee.

Moving closer

Another indication was the way it has been gradually moving closer to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), especially in moving the no confidence vote against Assembly Speaker K. R. Suresh Reddy and the joint public protests taken up later.

Cautious stand

Though Mr. Naidu had earlier gone on record to say that the party would not oppose separate Telangana, the TRS apparently wants the TDP to come out with a stand that could lead to a win-win situation for both the parties in the region.

Given a choice, the TDP would like to tread carefully and drag the issue for some more time when elections are round the corner but with enough signals coming from the TRS to hasten the process, it may not delay the issue anymore.

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