NEW DELHI: As the Sakala Janula Samme entered its 25th day, the Congress High Command on Friday discussed the Telangana issue here.Amid mounting pressure on the High Command for an early decision on the issue, the Congress core committee members - finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, home minister P Chidambaram, defence minister AK Antony, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and political secretary to Congress president Ahmed Patel met at Mukherjee’s office and discussed the issue for 45 minutes.Emerging out of the meeting, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is also in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, said the discussions were inconclusive.Ahead of the meeting of the mini core committee, Mukherjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and discussed the issue.Sources said that the core committee of the Congress would meet after governor ESL Narasimhan submits the status report on the ground level situation in the state, particularly in Telangana region. Narasimhan, who reached the national capital Friday evening, said he would meet the Union ministers on Saturday.Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has also been asked to meet the leaders in New Delhi.
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