New Delhi: The government is going to table the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 in Rajya Sabha on Thursday as the bill had already passed in Parliament.
The upper house could not pass the bill yesterday as the government and the opposition were unable to reach any consensus over amendments in the bill.
The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley and BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu too failed to yield any result.
Even as YS Chowdhary and CM Ramesh of the Telugu Desam Party and KVP Ramachandra Rao of the Congress stood near the chairman’s podium with posters demanding “united Andhra Pradesh” and “Save Andhra Pradesh”, the house passed four bills in a row, after an agreement among parties.
Ramesh had apologies for his behavior as he tried to snatch some papers from Secretary General Shumsher H Sheriff.
The house was suddenly adjourned for half an hour around 4.30 pm while the bill for Telangana was expected next.
When the house met again at 5 pm, Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien said passing four bills was enough work for a day and adjourned the house till Thursday.
Meanwhile Rajeev Shukla, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs has assured the bill will be taken up in Rajya Sabha Thursday.
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