New Delhi, December 27
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today reportedly promised “some good news” on Telangana and asked his party ministers from that region in Andhra Pradesh to withdraw their resignations, but they were not in an immediate mood to relent.

State Information and Tourism Minister Geeta Reddy, who led a delegation of 13 ministers who have quit in protest against Centre putting the Telangana on the backburner, told reporters after a meeting with Mukherjee that they would discuss his request among themselves first before taking a decision on their resignations.

“Pranab Mukherjee asked us to withdraw our resignations and assured us that there will be good news on Telangana issue in the near future,” Reddy said.

“We will discuss it (request to withdraw resignations) among ourselves. We apprised him of the situation in Andhra Pradesh. We told him that time has come for the creation of Telangana and people want a separate state,” she said. — PTI