The deadline set by Telangana Rashtra Samithi for the UPA government to make a positive announcement on separate Telangana state ended on Monday.

But so far, there has not been a word from the TRS leader as to what they would do next. The TRS leaders, however, said the strategy would be worked out at the three-day brainstorming session of the party which would begin on August 24.

“We will chalk out our plans for a new agitation in case the Centre goes back on the promise given to party president K Chandrasekhara Rao. We will work out a long-term political strategy for carrying the agitation forward and teach the Congress party a fitting lesson,” a TRS leader said.

The TRS leadership has not made any commitment to take into confidence the Telangana Joint Action Committee in taking up its agitation plan. The TJAC has already announced a series of programmes in September, culminating in a massive Telangana March on September 30.