In Spite of many efforts to put Congress into action for Telangana state there was no progress at all. The Congress tended towards postponing the issue in the name of consultations. In order to pressurize the Union. TRS along with UPA parties organized a large scale public meeting in Parade Grounds on December 1,2004. Ajit Singh, Ramdas, Dr. Krishnan attended the meeting.
- To check the speeding up by TRS, The Congress appointed a cabinet sub committee under the chairmanship of Pranab Mukherji on January 8, 2005 to obtain the opinions of UPA allied parties and other parties on the issue of Telangana. Raghuvamsha Prasad of RJD, Dayanidhi Maran of DMK were the members. The UPA government prescribed eight weeks time for the submission of the report.
- The committee issued letters to all the parties inviting their opinions. In this context TRS, MPs KCR, Narendra, Vinod Kumar, Raveendra naik, Madhu Sudhan Reddy along with prof. Jaya Shankar met all party leaders, they explained the necessity of formation of Telangana state and requested their favorable opinions. Out of 13 parties in UPA, 11 Parties (RJD, NCP, PMK, JMM, Lokjana shakthi, MDMK, TRS etc) wrote letters expressing support to Telangana state formation.
- DMK didn’t express its support in the letter form but accepted the formation of Telangana in the UPA meeting held on August 24, 2006. Congress did not submit any letter as the whole issue is being dealt by them only.
- Out of the ll parties which are supporting the UPA from outside, six parties (BSP, Rashtriya Lok dal, Forward Block, Janata dal, Sikkim Democratic Front, SJP (R) ) wrote letters in favor of Telangana, Samajwadi Party didn’t express its opinion. As they are confined to the formation of states on linguistic basis, CPM opposed the formation of Telangana State. As congress, BJP were supporting Telangana, the TRS won’t oppose both these parties. Congress and BJP supported Telangana. Since congress supported the cause, TRS did not withdraw its support to UPA.
- CPl expressed its views stating that special packages, formation of Regional Boards would settle injustices done to Telangana and if they fail to do so, a special committee should be appointed for examining the issue of formation of Telangana State. In the opposition NDA front out of 14 parties, 8 parties (BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal, JDU, IFD, MNF, NPF, BNS) supported Telangana in writing. Shivasena, AJP, National conference parties stated they would support the decision of BJP. The TDP which maintained silence initially, wrote a letter supporting Telangana on October 18,2008 as Devender Goud and Nagam Janardhan Reddy left the party and the elections were nearing.
- Though 80% of Lok Sabha members expressed support, the congress party did not react positively. KCR warned the government that if no decision was taken ín the Parliament monsoon I session the TRS ministers would resign their posts. Yet, there was no movement in congress. Even after 20 months, the Pranab Mukherjee Committee report was not submitted. The report was never submítted even after that.