News Today: The Congress top leadership is still not fully convinced that creating a new state of Telangana is the best option for it. On Tuesday meeting of the Congress core Group at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence ended without any change in the situation even as reports form Hyderabad suggested that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy had taken a stern line with striking government servants. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, briefed Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Dr. Singh on the consultations they had over the last few days with party leaders from both sides of the divide in Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana Congress leaders saw a pattern in the appeal. A senior leader claimed that the Chief Minister, having drawn flak for allegedly doing little to restore normality in the wake of the general strike, had gotten into an overdrive. In fact, Mr. Reddy and APCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana had gone all out to woo the RTC union leaders to end the strike.
The Chief Minister had also begun consultations with his own party leaders and there was a perceptible change in the ground-level situation. The political JAC had deferred its three-day rail roko agitation while Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy and Police Commissioner A.K. Khan had gone round the city inspecting bus depots and railway stations.
CM briefs Governor
The Chief Minister drove to Raj Bhavan late in the evening to brief Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan about the prevailing law and order situation and the efforts made by the APSRTC to put more buses into operation from Wednesday morning.
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