New Delhi: The Telangana agitation has entered its nineteenth day on Saturday and the Centre has once again failed to find a way out. Sources have said that government employees in the state now face a salary cut for skipping duty on the days of the strike.
On Friday, the Congress found interlocutor Ghulam Nabi Azad's internal report on the claim for a separate Telangana state inconclusive. Sources added that the party may now send a team to Andhra Pradesh to study the situation there.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrashekar Rao and a delegation of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) are in New Delhi. They are expected to meet the Prime Minister and the President, both of whom are not in the city.
The agitation has left all ten districts of the Telangana region, including Hyderabad, paralysed.
The Telangana crisis made Home Minister P Chidambaram speak out and urge the protestors to call off their strike.
"Continuation of the strike cripples the economy. I appeal to the protestors that they have made their point and they should call off the strike," Chidambaram said.
The Congress on Friday failed to achieve any breakthrough on the on-going Telangana crisis in a meeting held between UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and other Congress leaders.
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