The trouble is brewing over the "unwillingness" of the YSRC leadership to take an unambiguous stand on the statehood issue which has rattled the parties now struggling to keep their flock intact as the formation of Telangana seems to be the real possibility now.
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), widely being perceived as the main challenger to both Congress and TDP, has ended up only as a fringe player in the ongoing elections.
Former minister Konda Surekha, former MLC Konda Murali and two other senior leaders from Telangana region namely Jitta Balakrishna and K K Mahender Reddy held talks with YSRC honorary president Y S Vijaya over two days but were "left totally disappointed".
They said today that they would announce their future course of action soon.
"We asked her (Vijaya) to make the party's stand clear on Telangana....Whether it stuck to the resolution passed in the party's plenary two years ago. But she was not forthcoming with a clarification on the issue," Konda Surekha told reporters after emerging from the meeting.
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