Senior minister PCC Botcha Satyanarayana had distance himself from the consultation of CM of Andhra Pradesh N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Including Botcha, some other ministers also distance himself from him.
A meeting had been attended by Congress leaders from Telangana and Seemandhra on Saturday ahead of a possible debate on the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013, in the Lok Sabha next week.
The focus, however, is on the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had made its support for the Bill conditional on order in the House.
The Lok Sabha is likely to take up the Bill for debate on Tuesday.
It is also being anticipated that the day the Bill is passed, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy might resign and announce the formation of a new party. It is expected that some Ministers, MPs and MLAs will join him.
Cracks had been emerged in the Seemandhra group, with a number of senior Ministers, including Pradesh Congress Committee president Botcha Satyanaryana, distancing themselves from Reddy’s consultations.
A meeting of Union Ministers, MPs and elected representatives from Seemandhra is scheduled for Sunday.
Delhi is set to turn into a protest venue, with the YSR Congress calling for a demonstration at Jantar Mantar on Monday and the Samaikya Rashtra Parirakshana Vedika planning a rally on the Ramlila Maidan on February 18. Eight special trains carrying pro-Andhra Pradesh activists left from different parts of Seemandhra.
In Visakhapatnam, BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu did not give any definite indication of what his party’s stand in the House would be, even though the suspension of 16 Seemandhra MPs for creating a ruckus in the House could create conditions for order in the House. At a press conference, he only said that the division of the State was inevitable, and at the same time, called for the protection of Seemandhra’s interests.
Naidu said, “We demand a scientific and just division and judicious distribution of water, etc., and acceptance of the Finance Commission proposals on making up the revenue loss for Seemandhra, concessions for Uttarandhra, Rayalaseema and backward areas of Telangana.”
Bureau Report
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