Centre to hold all-party meet on Telangana

The Central Government will conduct an all-party meeting in the first week of next month on the Telangana issue.

According to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, the meeting would discuss various provisions of terms of reference of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana.  All political parties from the State would be invited for the meeting which is likely to be held before November 7, the day when GoM is scheduled to meet for the third time since its formation.

The all-party meeting is also likely to be attended by the members of GoM who already started consultations over sharing of resources between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.