Telangana, Seemandhra Ministers attend AP CM's dinner

Hyderabad: For the primary time in over a month once the Congress leadership proclaimed its call to divide the state, Andhra Pradesh's ministers from each side of the regional divide came along here on Wed night for a dinner hosted by state Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.

However, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha and senior ministers from Telangana like K Jana Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Danam Nagender stayed far from the occasion that was command in honour of the ordinal Finance Commission Chairman Y V Reddy.

There has been lots of animus between ministers from Telangana and coastal Andhra-Rayalaseema regions ever since the Congress proclaimed its call to separate the state.

The ministers from the Telangana region have suspect the Chief Minister of leading the continued agitation in coastal Andhra-Rayalaseema for a "united" state.

Some senior ministers from the region had even lodged a grievance with the Congress leadership against the Chief Minister for extending "tacit support" to the "united" AP agitation.

Though Reddy had been meeting his cupboard colleagues from coastal Andhra-Rayalaseema nearly daily, however ministers from Telangana had stayed far from him.

Tonight, ministers Geeta Reddy, D K Aruna, P Sudershan Reddy, N Uttam Kumar Reddy and Mukesh Goud came to the chief minister's camp residence for dinner.

"No politics were mentioned," a senior minister aforementioned, once starting of the camp residence.