Telangana is bound to be a state, says KCR

New Delhi: The pressure is building on the Centre to act on Telangana. Tuesday is the crucial all party meet where the Centre will try to thrash out a consensus but the battle lines are clearly drawn. The man at the fore of the Telangana struggle, K Chandrasekhar Rao (also known as KCR), is in Delhi where he will be meeting various leaders.

The new Andhra Pradesh Governor Narsimhan is also in Delhi to meet the home minister.

Speaking to NDTV shortly after he landed in Delhi KCR said that he was sure Telangana would be a separate state soon.

"These kinds of tactics are common when other states were formed. These are diplomatic decisions, which the government of India has taken, nothing more, nothing less," said I will stay back after January 5 meeting.

Who stands where

Let's now take a look at where the political parties stand with respect to statehood for Telangana

• The Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are a divided house
• Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the party spearheading the Telangana movement, the BJP and CPI are for a separate Telangana state
• Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam Party and CPM are for a unified Andhra Pradesh
• While the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is against a separate Telangana

Meanwhile, Joint Action Committee of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions have called for a bandh on Monday ahead of the January 5 meeting in Delhi. State Road Transport Corporation has cancelled approximately 11,000 buses in the two regions.