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The all-party meeting on Telangana
convened by Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi ended on Tuesday (January
5) at 3.5pm with leaders appealing for maintaining peace, harmony and law order
in Andhra Pradesh.
"We representatives of 8 recognised political parties of Andhra Pradesh attended
the meeting convened by the Home Minister. We have expressed our views at the
meeting and they have been noted by the Central government.
"Meanwhile, it is our earnest appeal that peace, harmony and law and order
should be maintained in the state," said a joint statement, signed by leaders,
issued at the end of the meeting.
No decision was taken at the meeting after which TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao
told reporters "we are waiting for the final response".
Praja Rajyam chief Chiranjeevi said he had made clear his party's stand that it
stood for a united Andhra Pradesh. "It is only the beginning of the process," he
said without elaborating.
Asked if he was satisfied with the meeting, he said "to some extent." BJP state
unit chief Bandaru Dattatreya said the UPA and the Congress party should make
their stand clear on the Telangana issue.
He quoted the Home Minister as saying that he would convey the views of the
leaders expressed in the meeting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after which
the road map for the consultations process would be drawn.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah, TRS leader K K S Rao and Uttamkumar
Reddy (both Cong) and Y Ramakrishna Du and R Prakash (both TDP), state BJP unit
chief Bandaru Dattareya and his colleague Hari Babu, B V Raghavalu and J
Rangareddy (CPI-M), K Narayanan and Malesh (CPI) and Asaduddin Owaisi and
Akbaruddin Owaisi of MIM also attended the meeting.
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