While several Congress men and Senators from Obama Government were enjoying the felicitations in Indian style in Congressional Diwali ( a Diwali Meet organized by NR Community in Washington DC ) , Indian Ambassador Mrs Nirupama Rao had faced the protest group on the current AP State bifurcation issue in Rayburn House ( one of the buildings of Capital Hill- the US Parliament)

Mrs Sailaja Adluri, Founder Chairman, Andhrapradesh NRI Forum, Mr Satish Vemana, NRI Telugu Desam party leader, Mr Jagadish Prabhala, prominent NRI from Columbus Ohio, Mr Ponnam Mantena, President, APNRI Forum, have met Mrs Nirupama Rao in the Rayburn Building on the eve of Congressional Diwali and expressed their anguish on the way Govt of India has ignored the feelings and views of over 60 million people from Andhra region and declared a separate Tenlangana state with Hyderabad. They also explained on Samaikandhra agitation being carried out by the public with out the support and supervision of any political party and political leaders. They presented a Memorandum to Mrs Nirupama Rao and requested her to inform Govt of India at  New Delhi. Mrs Nirupama Rao, Indian Ambassador to America has listened the Groups protest and assured that she would do the needful of forwarding their protest memorandum to New Delhi.

USA has been witnessing several activities supporting the current Samaikyandhra agitation in AP  as many groups in several cities like New Jersey, San Jose, Dallas etc have expressed their solidarity to Samaikyandhra in different forms. One such group in the fore front is Andhra Pradesh NRI Forum which is functioning for the last few years.  Started by a group of Telugu NRIs in USA, under the Chairmanship of Mrs Sailaja Adluri, Philadelphia, had earlier involved in Samaikyandhra movement by submitting a Report to Sri Krishna Commission, meeting and discussion with Sri Krishna Commission, running a Media campaign supporting United Andhra, conducting AP Formation Day celebrations on 1st November in several cities in USA.