He said that the Centre would deliver Telangana state in three months.
“Wait for three months and you will get to hear the announcement,” the Minister said. He was advising the Telangana legislators not to submit resignation letters afresh.
“Since the UPA government is in the process of resolving the issue, there is no need for fresh resignations,” he said. This is not the time to put unnecessary pressure on the Centre on a sensitive issue like Telangana, Shankar Rao said.
The quirky Telangana Minister never fails to display his foot-in-the-mouth syndrome. The other day, he had boasted that he alone could get separate Telangana state delivered to the people. In his typical style, Shankar Rao had claimed that he could single-handedly negotiate with the Centre and convince the leadership to carve out separate state.
However, he put a rider that he would not go to Delhi as "part of the crowd" but in an individual capacity to achieve the goal.
"I will go alone and get the work done. I cannot go in a group," he declared. In fact, Dr Shankar had written a letter to the high command, offering his services to resolve the issue.
It is a different matter that he was never called for talks.
