Telangana issue: Congress Members of Parliament to meet on January 4

Hyderabad: Congress Member of Parliament  from Telangana region today said they would meet on January 4 to decide future course of action to make the Centre take a favourable decision on the statehood issue.

"Since we were let down earlier, we would like to continue to put pressure and see that a road map is announced for formation of Telangana,"  Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar told reporters here.

The future course of action would be deliberated on January 4, he said.

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had indicated on Friday that a decision on the contentious issue would be taken in a month after a meeting with political parties from Andhra Pradesh.

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