New Delhi: As the issue of division of Andhra Pradesh and formation of Telangana reviewed by cabinet, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will sit on protest in Delhi from today.
The Centre is determined to introduce the bill in Parliament in the two-week session that begins today. After the cabinet’s clearance, the bill will be sent to the President and then brought to Parliament for a debate and vote.
Meanwhile Andhra CM had said that he will resign if the bill passed. He also says he is “sure that the bill will not be presented to Parliament.”
Notify that the initiative of Kiran Kumar Reddy led to the result the bill being rejected by law makers in Andhra Pradesh last week. They have sought more than 9000 amendments in it. The feedback of the Andhra Pradesh assembly is not binding on the Centre, but their dissent dents the moral authority of the Congress.
The rebellion of Andhra CM has pitted him against his party’s central leadership, which wants the Telangana state to be cleared by Parliament before the national election, due by May.
The Chief Minister belongs to the Congress, which like most other parties, is blighted by differences over whether to turn Telangana into India’s 29th state, a move the region has campaigned for over decades.
Kiran Kumar Reddy will sit in protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, however, his deputy, Damodar Raja Narasimha, who is from Telangana, will join a protest to demand the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh at Rajghat.
Bureau Report
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