Yet another showdown is expected at the state assembly’s business advisory committee (BAC) meeting on Monday. Confident that the numbers are in their favour, the Telangana protagonists are gearing up to push through their agenda for ensuring that the draft Telangana Bill is tabled and debated in the House as early as possible. But despite being outnumbered in the BAC, the Seemandhra lobby, including House leader and chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, are all set to thwart the Telangana legislators game plan at every step. The BAC consists of 11 members of whom the ruling Congress has seven — chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, deputy CM Damodar Raja Narasimha, legislative affairs minister D Sridhar Babu, finance minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, ...

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