Only Cong High Command can decide on T, Rosaiah tells Cabinet colleagues

Hyderabad, Jan 18: The Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah, on Monday made it categorically clear that the separate Telangana issue can only be decided by the Congress High Command and that the State has no role to play in it.Chairing the meeting of his Cabinet, the Chief Minister reiterated that it is the Centre that can take decide on the sensitive issue of bifurcating the State.“Till that time let us concentrate on the developmental activities. Welfare programmes have taken a back seat in the past two months.

At least now let us shift our focus on this point,” Mr Rosaiah is understood to have told his Cabinet colleagues.The State Cabinet that met here on Monday extensively discussed the issue of separate Telangana. When the issue of allocation of crop insurance came up for discussion, the Council of Ministers is understood to have divided vertically on regional lines.Some Ministers from the region like Mr Komatireddy Venkat Reddy (Information Technology) and Mr D Sridhar Babu (Higher Education),

are stated to have picked up an argument with the Minister for Agriculture, Mr N Raghuveera Reddy (from Rayalaseema region) and the Minister for Panchayat Raj, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana (from North Coastal Andhra).The Ministers from Telangana even pointed out the reported imbalance in the allocation of funds to Telangana, particularly in the Centrally-sponsored crop insurance scheme.