Only 3 ministers – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jairam Ramesh and Veerappa Moily seem to have pushed for including the Rayala-Telangana as an option to be considered by Union cabinet. The other 4 members, including Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde didn’t prefer it and wanted to stick to the original plan – Telangana with 10 districts. While they wanted GoM to work as per the original Cabinet directive and gave recommendations accordingly, media reports say Rayala-Telangana is an option the GoM mentioned in its report so that Cabinet consider it for discussion. Rumors floated earlier that the Royala-Telangana proposal came from above, from Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. If that was true, the proposal wouldn’t have been opposed by GoM members ...

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