Hyderabad/New Delhi:
Ahead of T-day, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has said it will skip Home Minister P Chidambaram's meeting tomorrow. The TDP is the latest entrant in the boycott bandwagon.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti or TRS, headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao who fronted the campaign for a new state, is boycotting the meeting. So is the BJP.
(Watch Chidambaram invites the TRS) .Tomorrow, Home Minister P Chidambaram will share with political parties from Andhra Pradesh a much-awaited report on the prospect of a new state of Telangana.Chidambaram is scheduled to present the report prepared by the Srikrishna Committee to political leaders. The report will then be made public.
Sources say that the committee has not indicated whether Andhra Pradesh should be bifurcated. Instead, it has presented the pros and cons of different options.
Some of the Congress' senior-most leaders, including Pranab Mukherjee and Ahmad Patel, met with the party's MPs from the Telangana region today.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy who is in Delhi has denied that his own party is split over the issue. In recent weeks, Congress MPs and MLAs from the Telangana region have threatened to resign if a new state is not sanctioned.
"I also do not know what is in the report. Experts have gone into the issue (Telangana) in detail. Let us wait for them to submit the report. Let us see what is in it before making comments," said Mr Reddy.
He stressed, "There is no division at all."
Mr Reddy also said he is not worried about his partymen leaving to join Jagan Mohan Reddy, who today registered his new political party, named the YSR party, after his father who died in a helicopter crash in 2009 when he was Chief Minister. Jagan quit the Congress late last year. "They respect YSR. But they are all Congressmen," said Mr Reddy.
(Read: Jagan seeks to register new 'YSR' party)YSR was one of Andhra Pradesh's most popular and charismatic leaders, and Jagan is likely to establish himself as a new heavyweight in the state's political boxing ring.