Telangana Congress members had been mounting more pressure on the Center seeking an early decision on the seperate state while demanding for a positive reply depsite warnings from the high command that they shouldn't cross the lines.
K Keshava Rao, the former member of Rajya Sabha threatened that they would all go on an agitation and decide the future course of action achieve Telangana state. His statement insinuated that they all awaited the call from K Chandrasekhara Rao, the leader of TRS to join his party. MP from Peddapalli, G Vivek said that he was hoping that the party would take a quick decision with positive answers or else he would be forced to consider altenatives.
However, this statement was merely a threat that is on the Center to ensure an expedited process. He later announced that he would contest on behalf of Congress for the next elections.
PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana also made efforts to convince the T Congress MPs that they had reason to procrastinate the decision and that a decision would be made soon. Coaxing the MPs he tried to make sure that all of them remained with Congress.
It is also speculated that both the PCC chief and CM Kiran Kumar Reddy would have talked about the issue to the high command today in New Delhi.
Pressure Mounting Tactics or real threats?
Keshava Rao doesn't want to move to TRS despite the party Chief asking the former Rajya Sabha member to co-ordinate the T-Congress members for the movement. He also offered to take them into his party on April 27th the formation day of TRS party. Vivek has rubbished reports saying that he won't move already. Manda Jagannadham has been keen to move to TRS however. He originally moved to Congress from TDP and hence leaving Congress would be an easy job for him since it is not his original turf anyway.
Though Keshava Rao has not been interested in shifting sides, he strongly believed TRS is committed to the T Movement. He said, “It is a party wedded to the T movement. The Congress has forgotten about the demand for a separate state”.
(AW- Anil)
