Telangana: CWC meeting tomorrow, D-Day likely for Andhra Pradesh

HYDERABAD: In what could be D-Day for Andhra Pradesh, the Congress has finally called for the meeting of its highest policy making body, the Congress working committee (CWC) on Tuesday evening. In a morning of swift developments on Monday, the Congress also decided to advance the meeting of the UPA coordination committee from Wednesday to Tuesday.
The UPA coordination committee meeting is to be held at 4pm on Tuesday followed by the CWC meeting at 5.30pm in Delhi.Both chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana have been summoned to be present in the national capital, indicating that crucial decisions determining the future of the state are likely to be taken and announced. AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Digvijaya Singh confirmed to the media in Delhi that the CWC meeting has been called for on Tuesday evening.
The billion dollar question now is what is going to be announced. Congress leaders from the state who are in touch with the party high command are of the view that the ruling party will create Rayala-Telangana, which would comprise the 10 districts of Telangana and the two Rayalaseema districts of Kurnool and Anantapur. However, the possibility of only Telangana, comprising of its 10 districts is also not being ruled out.
The more important question is what will happen to Hyderabad. While the Congress is hinting at the possibility of making the state capital Union territory and joint capital for both the states for a period ranging from 5 years to 10, the TRS has made it clear that nothing less than Telangana with Hyderabad as its sole capital will be acceptable to them.
In the meantime, security has been beefed up in both Hyderabad and the rest of the state. Truckloads of personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) were seen deployed at strategic positions in Hyderabad and a similar deployment is on the anvil in the other major cities of the state in Telangana and Seemandhra.