NEW DELHI: Amid deepening crisis over the 2G scam, the Congress on Wednesday managed to put off a decision on the vexed Telangana issue that has crippled Andhra Pradesh since a fortnight. The contours of a resolution by way of future negotiations with stakeholders, were however, promised by Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad, the party’s state in-charge. Azad told a group of visiting Congress parliamentarians from the Telangana region that he would submit his report on the subject to party president Sonia Gandhi on the scheduled date of September 30. M Jagannath, the party’s MP from Nagarkurool, who attended the meeting with Azad here, told Express, “The Congress is interested in resolving the issue without further delay. Azad indicated this to us.” The report’s submission, according to Jagannath, would be followed by a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi. Earlier in the day, addressing the media here, Jagannath and his party colleagues from the region had said that people were “really angry” with the UPA Government’s indecision. “The people of Telangana want a separate state and except us to bargain on their behalf,” he had said adding that violence breaking on the streets should not be unexpected if aspirations were unfulfilled. While agitations were being led by the TRS resulted in massive power failures, and shutdown of road transport for the past 15 days, the MPs said they would “continue to camp in Delhi till a separate state was announced.”
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