“Hot T? Get a cuppa from your kitchen.” That’s what a local Congress leader had to say on the sense of urgency around the Telangana issue. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party’s Andhra Pradesh in-charge, chose to sidestep the political minefield by saying that the one-month deadline need not be taken too literally: “The Congress resolution can’t be bracketed within a one-month deadline.” Members of the elite Congress think-tank, meanwhile, continued to ply Sonia Gandhi with ‘dependable’ surveys for and against statehood.