HYDERABAD: All-India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh has made it clear that the Congress is committed to constituting a second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) to deal with the demand of separate statehood for Telangana.

The Congress has not deviated from its stand on the second SRC and it has constituted a committee headed by Pranab Mukherjee to evolve a consensus following the insistence of TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Mr. Digvijay Singh said on Thursday.

Addressing the two-day brainstorming session of the Pradesh Congress Committee at heritage resort of Taramati Baradari here, he said consensus could not be evolved because of divergent views of political parties. "Where is consensus? Three of the five alliance partners — PI, CPI (M) and MIM - have said no to separate Telangana while the Congress favoured a second SRC," he said. Mr. Singh asked partymen not to get disappointed over the debacle in the Karimnagar Lok Sabha byelection. It was only an example to show that rationale would take a backseat whenever emotional issues came forward.

The AICC leader said the meeting, which is being attended by Ministers, MPs, MLAs and senior party leaders, had been organised to review the performance of the Government in the last two and a half years and make mid-course corrections, if necessary. APCC president K. Keshav Rao presided over the meeting.

He explained that it would take time for the Government to implement all its election promises.

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