Congress president Sonia Gandhi is trying her best to put the house in order ever since she returned from the US after a surgery. After having brokered a truce between Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the 2G note to the PMO, the Congress president has now turned her attention to organisational matters.
On Friday, she attended the party's core group meeting at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence, nearly two months after she underwent surgery.
The meeting discussed the Telangana crisis, relief operations in quake-hit Sikkim and the strategy to counter BJP propaganda on the 2G controversy.
For Sonia, the main priority appeared to be the worsening crisis in Telangana as well as the disturbances in the Congress-ruled states.
The Congress president met Union Health Minister and AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad, who submitted a report on the demand for a separate statehood for Telangana and briefed her about the volatile situation in the region amid speculation that the report may favour separate statehood.
This was the first meeting between Sonia and Azad on the Telangana issue after her return from the US on September 8. Sources said even in the midst of the 2G crisis, Sonia had asked Mukherjee to monitor the Telangana situation and help resolve the tangle.
She is also reported to have told the ace trouble shooter to keep a watch on the situation in party-ruled Goa where the chief minister is facing charges of illegal mining.
Sources said Sonia also summoned Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot to express displeasure over the handling of the land dispute between Meos and Gujjars in Bharatpur a fortnight ago which led to communal clashes killing nine people.
A party delegation that visited the trouble-spot submitted a report to the Congress president, indirectly blaming the state home minister for his failure to stem the riots.
The party is also worried over the embarrassing situation the Gehlot government appears to have landed in after a case was filed against state water resources minister Mahipal Maderna for having abducted and raped Bhanwari Devi, the midwife-nurse in Jodhpur who is missing for more than three weeks.
On Friday, she attended the party's core group meeting at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence, nearly two months after she underwent surgery.
The meeting discussed the Telangana crisis, relief operations in quake-hit Sikkim and the strategy to counter BJP propaganda on the 2G controversy.
For Sonia, the main priority appeared to be the worsening crisis in Telangana as well as the disturbances in the Congress-ruled states.
The Congress president met Union Health Minister and AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad, who submitted a report on the demand for a separate statehood for Telangana and briefed her about the volatile situation in the region amid speculation that the report may favour separate statehood.
This was the first meeting between Sonia and Azad on the Telangana issue after her return from the US on September 8. Sources said even in the midst of the 2G crisis, Sonia had asked Mukherjee to monitor the Telangana situation and help resolve the tangle.
She is also reported to have told the ace trouble shooter to keep a watch on the situation in party-ruled Goa where the chief minister is facing charges of illegal mining.
Sources said Sonia also summoned Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot to express displeasure over the handling of the land dispute between Meos and Gujjars in Bharatpur a fortnight ago which led to communal clashes killing nine people.
A party delegation that visited the trouble-spot submitted a report to the Congress president, indirectly blaming the state home minister for his failure to stem the riots.
The party is also worried over the embarrassing situation the Gehlot government appears to have landed in after a case was filed against state water resources minister Mahipal Maderna for having abducted and raped Bhanwari Devi, the midwife-nurse in Jodhpur who is missing for more than three weeks.
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