Crucial day for Telangana, Congress likely to reach a decision today

Well-placed sources said while Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi have already given their nod to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh despite stiff opposition from various quarters, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was reluctant in view of intelligence agencies raising security concerns over the proposed move.
However, a senior leader said the Congress leadership has decided to bite the bullet as the issue has been hanging fire for several decades now and any further delay in the decision could prove counter-productive for the party.

The UPA coordination committee and the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision making body of the party, are all set to endorse the move and place it before parliament for approval in the monsoon session that commences from August 5.
The urgency on the part of the Congress leadership to resolve the tangle could be gauged by the fact that the UPA meet was advanced by a day and the CWC will also deliberate the same day.