JAC confident of retaining pro-Telangana Congress leader

The all-party Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) today exuded confidence that pro-Telangana Congress leaders would remain part of it though the ruling party's high command asked them to withdraw from the panel. "They have not done so. We are confident that they (Congress) will remain part of the JAC," JAC convener C Kodandaram told reporters here today. Union minister Veerappa Moily, in-charge of Congress affairs in Andhra Pradesh, had directed the Congress leaders fromTelangana region to withdraw from the JAC.The Congress leaders, however, said they would wait for the announcement of the proposed committee to go into the Telangana issue by Union home minister P Chidambaram.Meanwhile, the JAC leaders held a sit-in protest today at the assembly premises as part of their week-long agitation programmes being held in support of the Telangana demand. The JAC would organise a human chain from Adilabad to Alampur in Mahabubnagar district tomorrow, Kodandaram said.