Call it a domino effect. After giving in to the demand for statehood to Telangana, the Congress is now open to setting up a second state reorganisation commission (SRC) to look into other demands for separate statehood.

Spokesperson Meem Afzal on Wednesday said the party stands by an October 2011 resolution of its highest-decision-making body, Congress working committee (CWC), demanding the forming of a second SRC.

But, he clarifies that the Centre is not rushing into it. “We have nothing to say about it right now. But the Congress is in favour of formation of smaller states.”

Not every demand for a statehood can get a quick nod, though. Afzal explains that a decision on creation of a state is taken only after considering its economic viability and geography.

Defending the CWC and UPA coordination committee’s decision to carve Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh, he said, by and large, all parties have supported it and that it has been “received well”.

The central government is sitting on 14 demands of separate statehood, received over the years from various organisations and political parties. The most vocal among them is the clamour for separating Vidarbha from Maharashtra.

Others include splitting Uttar Pradesh into four units, a separate Mithilanchal in Bihar, Saurashtra in Gujarat and Coorg in Karnataka, Gorkhaland out of Darjeeling and its adjoining areas in West Bengal, Bundelkhand from UP and Madhya Pradesh, Bhojpur comprising areas of eastern UP, Bihar and Chhattisgarh, Harit Pradesh consisting of western UP districts, and Greater Cooch Behar out of West Bengal and Assam.

The proposed formation of the 29th state comes 13 years after three new states — Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal renamed as Uttarakhand and Jharkhand — were created.