India, April 28 -- The Congress government in Telangana will take a call on holding peace talks with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) after discussions with the party national leadership, chief minister Revanth Reddy said on Monday.

The statement was issued after Reddy discussed the issue with senior Congress leader and former home minister K Jana Reddy and the state government's two advisers on public affairs, Vem Narender Reddy and K Keshava Rao, also attended the meeting on Monday.

On Sunday, the state civil liberties committee and other social activists asked the chief minister to intervene to help end the ongoing operations by security forces in the dense forests of neighbouring Chhattisgarh.

The CMO said Reddy also spoke to ...