The CPI (M) leadership appears to be in no hurry to take a call on the proposed federal front mooted by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the party would consider the policies and programmes of the front before taking a stand on it. It was not uncommon for proposals relating to such alternatives in the run up to the elections and the party would take a decision on the issue at the time of the elections, he said.
Replying to a query, he said the party’s ongoing national congress would pass a resolution relating to the assurance on granting special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The party had raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha at the time of bifurcation of the State seeking safeguards for the successor State and Vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu, then in the Opposition, assured that the BJP would come to power and take steps to grant special category status to AP for 10 years.
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“What happened four years down the line. The party congress will hold deliberations on the issue and pass resolution,” he said.