Hyderabad: The chances of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao leading an all-party delegation to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring pressure on him to resolve bifurcation-related issues with Andhra Pradesh looks bleak.
Though the CMO has sought an appointment with Mr Modi, the PMO is yet to respond. Mr Rao is now planning to utilise the Chief Ministers’ meeting convened by Mr Modi in New Delhi on December 7 to raise these issues.
Though the CMs’ meeting has been specially convened to discuss the alternatives for the Planning Commission, which was abolished by the Centre recently, Mr Rao hopes that the Prime Minister will spare him a few minutes prior to or after the meeting so that he can put forth the issues concerning Telangana.
The CMO has been unsuccessfully trying for an appointment for all-party delegation with Mr Modi since June. It had earlier sought an appoin-tment with Mr Modi for taking up the Polavaram issue (merger of seven Telangana-mandals into AP) and denial of power by Andhra Pradesh from its power stations.
CMO officials have been regularly keeping in touch with the PMO since then, but in vain. The task was also assigned to TRS MPs A.P. Jitender Reddy and B. Vinod, besides Dr S. Venugopala Chary, the special representative of the Telangana State government in New Delhi.
