It is more or less clear in political circles that the Congress President Sonia Gandhi is keen on granting statehood to Telangana though an influential section of the central leadership is against bifurcation.
However, one of the reasons being cited for her insistence is curious.
It is said that Sonia wants to take a revenge of a different kind by dividing Andhra Pradesh.
Her mother-in-law and former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi was steadfastly opposed to the division of Andhra Pradesh. As a daughter-in-law who is in a position to decide the fate of the state, Sonia wants to take a sweet revenge against Indira Gandhi by agreeing for splitting the state.
The protagonists of united Andhra Pradesh often quote Indira Gandhi's speech in the Parliament where she categorically asserted that the state would not be divided and that such a move would be detrimental to the spirit of the linguistic state.
Her daughter-in-law, it is said in some quarters, nurses a secret ambition to reverse that decision and now is the opportunity for her to have her way.
"Sonia is a typical daughter-in-law. Given an opportunity, she will do in the exactly opposite way of what her mother-in-law did and in this case she will bifurcate Andhra Pradesh," a Congress leader said.
There is a talk in political circles that the questions posed by the AICC bosses during the presentations made by the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha and the PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana suggested that they had made up their mind to divide the state.
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