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Consultation process on Telangana still on: Shinde

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 30 2013 | 1:25 PM IST

"Consultation process is still on," he told reporters when asked whether the Centre has set any fresh deadline on Telangana issue.

A decision on the Telangana statehood demand was deferred on Sunday with the Centre and Congress saying there was need for "further consultations" which will take a "little more time".

Shinde had on December 28 declared that government would make an announcement on separate statehood issue within a month. The deadline ended on Sunday.

"On Telangana issue, consultation process is on. It may take little more time to reach a final decision," Shinde had said in a brief statement on Sunday.

The Home Minister, who returned from Dhaka last evening, said that during his two day visit to Bangladesh, an extradition treaty and a revised travel agreement were signed with the neighbouring country.

Asked when ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia could be extradited to India, Shinde said the insurgent leader was in a jail in Dhaka but "we have discussed his case too".

India has been pressing for Chetia's deportation since long. The ULFA leader has been in a Dhaka jail following his arrest in 1997 on the charge of entering Bangladesh without valid documents.

  

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First Published: Jan 30 2013 | 1:25 PM IST

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