Meet on Telangana ends- No decision5 Jan, 2010, New Delhi, India

An all-party meeting called by the Centre for discussing statehood for Telangana ended without taking any decision on an issue. The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who chaired the meeting, went to meet the Prime Minister and apprise him with the outcome soon after the meeting ended in New Delhi.

The leaders of the eight major political parties of Andhra Pradesh came out of the meet appealing for the peace, harmony and law & order in state of Andhra Pradesh. All of them said that they will work towards building a consensus on the Telangana issue.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was the non committal when asked if there was a resolution on this issue in the meeting. The TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao, spearheading the agitation for a separate state of Telangana said that his party would wait for Centre final stand on the issue, Praja Rajyam Party chief Chiranjeevi reiterated that his party stood for a united Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra BJP chief Bandaru Dattatreya demanded that Congress and United Progressive Alliance should make their stand clear on the issue. The meeting was attended by representatives of Congress, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the Praja Rajyam Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).