New Delhi: To press their demand for separate Telangana state, Andhra Pradesh Congress MPs from the region on Monday reached the Prime Minister's residence at the national capital to meet Manmohan Singh.
Party leaders from Telangana region are camping in Delhi for the last few days to press for the demand of separate statehood.
Congress is caught in a tricky situation in Andhra Pradesh with Telangana region observing an indefinite bandh over the issue of separate statehood, a demand being opposed by the party in coastal Andhra and Rayalseema regions of the state.
The Telangana agitation, now in its 21st day, has crippled normal life in Andhra Pradesh.
The Central Government has been buying time saying the issue is a complex one and needs detailed discussion.
Living up to Home Minister P Chidambaram's assurance of finding a solution to the Telangana agitation, an all-party meeting was held in the capital on October 1 to discuss the issue.
Congress' Andhra Pradesh in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad whose report on the issue was found inconclusive, was present at the meet along with Defence Minister AK Antony and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, among others.
Meanwhile, Bringing his fight for a separate Telangana to the national capital, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao stages a sit-in at Rajghat, rejecting Centre's decision to hold "further consultations".
A day after he sat on a token fast at Rajghat on Gandhi Jayanti, Rao is also likely to meet the Prime Minister over the issue on Monday.
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