Cong, TRS wants TDP to join Joint Action Committee

In an effort to intensify the agitation for Telangana statehood, the Congress and the TRS want the opposition TDP to reconsider its decision and join the Joint Action Committee but Chandrababu Naidu's party does not appear to be willing.

In an effort to intensify the agitation for Telangana statehood, the Congress and the TRS want the opposition TDP to reconsider its decision and join the Joint Action Committee (JAC) but Chandrababu Naidu's party does not appear to be willing.

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The Congress camp was busy Saturday with the ministers and MPs, MLAs and MLCs meeting separately to chalk out their next course of action while the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee decided to meet tomorrow to announce its future plan.

The JAC is mulling whether to take out a bus yatra with ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs or organise bandhs to step up their struggle for a separate state.

"We will decide on the next course of action tomorrow and announce it on Tuesday," TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao said.

Ironically, the Congress and the TRS are apparently trying for oneupmanship in the JAC with both sides claiming that theirs was the key role in the current agitation.

The 13 ministers, hailing from Telangana region, who sent their common resignation letter to AICC president Sonia Gandhi yesterday, met at the residence of minister Jupalli Krishna Rao and decided to meet Gandhi in Delhi tomorrow.

The Telugu Desam Party, on the other hand, demanded that Sonia Gandhi first speak out on the Telangana issue.