"A Lok Sabha MP and six former MPs met Rahul Gandhi...We told Gandhi to go ahead, we are with you to reconcile and reconstruct Telangana Congress and the state. You advise us, we are with you," Ponnam Prabakar, who lost in Karimnagar Parliamentary constituency, said.
During the 45-minute meeting issues behind the party's defeat in Telangana was discussed.
Congress suffered a drubbing in assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Telangana with the national party winning only one Lok Sabha seat and 21 assembly seats.
Another MP Madhu Yaskhi Goud, who lost in Nizamabad, said they had deliberated several issues with Gandhi, including the defeat of those fought for the Telangana cause.
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"There is a special judgement by the people -- how people who fought for Telangana lost and people who deceived Telangana and never raised Telangana voice have been elected," he noted.
Expressing surprise over a YSRCP MP winning from Telangana region, Goud said the Telangana leaders have extended their support for Gandhi to rejuvenate Congress.