The union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has cleared the doubts in the air regarding all party meeting on Telangana statehood issue. Mr Shinde has said that all party meeting would be convened on the earlier announced date (December 28, 2012) and there would be no change in that. It may be noted that when Congress MP s pressurized the Centre, during FDI voting, for declaring a date on all party meeting, Centre announced that all party meeting would be convened on December 28.

PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana and chief minister Kiran Kumar apparently were not happy with the dates and reportedly urged the Centre to change the date of the all party meeting. In fact, chief minister recently told in Delhi that date of all party meeting was likely to be postponed. In the wake of all these speculations, Mr Shinde told the media that there would be no change in the date of all party meet.

(AW Phani)