Dr Rajashekhar Reddy, who arrived in the capital on Sunday morning, hosted a luncheon meeting for the MPs from the state.
The Congress is confident that all the party MPs from the state, and two more votes will be cast in favour of the motion of confidence to be moved by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh.
All the Congress MPs, barring Mr Ch Harirama Jogaiah and Mr Y.S. Vivekanand Reddy, were present.
Mr Jogaiah had reportedly told the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, that he only had reservations against the Chief Minister, Dr Rajashekhar Reddy, and that he would vote for the Congress.
Mr Vivekananda Reddy was away in Jaipur on a personal work and could attend the meet.
Dr Reddy called on Congress president’s political adviser, Mr Ahmed Patel and briefed him.
He also called on Union information and broadcasting minister, Mr Priyaranjan Das Munshi, who had recently undergone a bypass surgery.
It was attended by CWC member in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, M. Veerappa Moily, AICC coordi nator, Mr P.J. Kurien, AICC secretary, Mr Iqbal Singh, and APCC president D.Srinivas.
The party managers are confident that with MIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi announcing his support to the UPA government, the entire contingent from Andhra Pradesh will cast its vote en bloc in favour of the trust motion.
Apart from Union ministers belonging to Andhra Pradesh, the luncheon meeting was also attended by several MLAs and state irri gation minister, Mr Ponnala Laxmaiah and state housing minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana.
The Congress has been propagating that nuclear energy is indispensable for rural development and tackling agrarian unrest.
It has resorted to aggressive posturing on the issue till now. It said that while the initial investment was high, the provision for reprocessing the spent nuclear fuel would considerably bring down the costs, the party argued.