Fact no. 1 : The Congress will not bite the bullet on Telangana. Fact no. 2 : Even without biting the bullet, the Congress has shot itself in the foot and is dying a slow death. The ruling party may well write off Andhra Pradesh, when it sits down to do its calculations for where its MPs for UPA 3 will come from. In the previous two editions, the state led from the front, sending 29 and 33 Congressmen and women to the Lok Sabha.