Cabinet meet on Saturday

Hyderabad, Jan 28: The Cabinet meeting scheduled for Saturday acquires importance against the backdrop of the resignations submitted by the ruling Congress legislators from the Telangana region and also MLAs from other parties.These legislators from the region quit the Assembly on a call given by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) formed to achieve statehood for Telangana. With the resignations the JAC is hopeful of creating a constitutional crisis thus forcing the Centre to concede their demand for Telangana state.

The Council of Ministers is meeting at 10 am on Saturday in the Council Hall, in the General Administration Department (GAD), C-Block, Secretariat here. The meeting thus acquires importance.Sources in the GAD said here on Thursday that the Cabinet meet to be chaired by the Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah, will, among other things, focus on the progress of various welfare schemes that are being implemented.