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Consensus vital for division: Odisha CM
Consensus Vital for Division: Odisha CM, Resolution on the issue, Killing of Democracy, Speaking to media persons after a 15-minute meeting with Patnaik, Jagan asserted that Article 3 of the Constitution, which gives exemplary powers to Centre to create new states.
Jagan meets Naveen Patnaik to get support to build national consensus against bifurcation
- Naveen: AP Assembly should pass Resolution on the issue
- Jagan wants Article 3 to be amended to end ‘killing of democracy’
Hyderabad: Continuing his efforts to build a national consensus against the bifurcation of the state, YSR Congress Party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday met Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneshwar and sought the latter’s support in favour of his campaign against the state division.
Speaking to media persons after a 15-minute meeting with Patnaik, Jagan asserted that Article 3 of the Constitution, which gives exemplary powers to Centre to create new states, should be amended to prevent the division of states as per the whims and fancies of the Union government. If it is not amended it would lead to further division of states by killing democracy in broad daylight, he said.
"We had impressed upon him that the Article should be amended in such a way that if a state has to be divided then an Assembly Resolution would be mandatory,” he said. Thanking Patnaik for extending his support to united AP, he said that the resolutions should get the nod of the State Assembly and Parliament by at least two-thirds majority in both houses.
Extending full support to Jagan’s fight against AP bifurcation, Patnaik, who was also the president of Biju Janata Dal , said the proposal to carve out the state should have been passed in the State Assembly.
“Division of state is a political, social, economic and emotional issue. In case of Andhra Pradesh, the people of the state should have been consulted and a consensus developed before any decision is taken. It should not be done for narrow political, electoral interest.
A sensible political dialogue is missing in the whole process,” he said. Maintaining that division of a state "should not be done for narrow political and electoral interests", he said a 'sensitive political dialogue' was missing on the issue of Telangana.
