PC for political end to T-row, lest Maoists take over

New Delhi, Jan 5: Seeking cooperation from all the political quarters in Andhra Pradesh, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday appealed to  the party representatives at the Conclave to help the Centre hammer out a solution to the Telangana issue.‘‘In case you fail to thrash out a solution, it will be a mockery of democracy and the Maoists would be ready to grab the opportunity,’’ the Home Minister said.Referring to the meeting of eight political parties from the State, he said the agenda was to "deliberate on the mechanism and lay down a road map for the consultations".

"I urge each political party represented here to show accommodation and goodwill. Ultimately,you must find the answers and help the Central government find a solution," the Home Minister averred.``The agenda for the meeting may appear limited, but I am confident that if we take one step at a time, we will, eventually, find a solution,"he opined.The Minister cautioned all political parties hinting that there are forces waiting on the wings to ridicule parliamentary democracy if the parties collectively failed to find answers to the issues. He apparently had the Maoists in his mind.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah, TRS leader K Chandrashekhar Rao, actor-turned-politician and PRP leader Chiranjeevi and his associate C Ramachandraiah, K S Rao and Uttamkumar Reddy (both Cong) and Y Ramakrishnudu and R Prakash (both TDP) are among those who attended the meeting.Andhra Pradesh BJP unit chief Bandaru Dattareya and his colleague Hari Babu, B V Raghavalu and J Rangareddy (CPM), K Narayanan and Malesh (CPI) and Asaduddin Owaisi and Akbaruddin Owaisi of MIM also attended the deliberations.