Minister TG Venkatesh, who was reportedly opposed to formation of Telangana state, has said that Centre calling two persons from each party for the all party meeting was a good decision. Welcoming the decision, TG Venkatesh said a clear cut statement on Telangana may not come in the all party meeting. Further, he has said that Congress party is going to include Telangana issue in its manifesto before the elections.

Observers said that NDA is also most likely to include Telangana state in its manifesto as BJP leader LK Advani earlier stressed Telangana would be carved out within 100 days of NDA coming to power. In case manifestos of UPA and NDA both contain the same point on Telangana, then people from Telangana region may prefer NDA to UPA, added observers. Anyway, lets wait and watch as to what would be the outcome of December 28 all party meeting.

(AW Phani)