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AP Assembly will witness storm over Telangana
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AP Assembly Will Witness Storm Over Telangana. If the Centre's plan of splitting the state becomes reality the Legislature beginning on Thursday could be the final session of 'united' AP.
Hyderabad: AP assembly may witness a stormy winter session in view of the debate which is likely to be thunderous, given the frayed and provocative tempers on both sides over the centre's decision on division of Telangana.
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If the Centre's plan of splitting the state becomes reality the Legislature beginning on Thursday could be the final session of 'united' AP.
Though there will be no voting as such at the end of the debate on, probably the only agenda, namely "The draft AP Reorganisation Bill-203" which is referred by the President under Article 3 of the Constitution for "expressing views, Legislature sources say there will nevertheless be a clear count of those who favoured or opposed it.
Though the 'head count' will not have any bearing on the Centre's decision to divide the state, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has openly challenged the central government to get the Bill passed in Parliament after the draft is "rejected" by the Assembly.
The main game plan of legislators from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions is to see that the draft Bill is not returned to the Centre before the conclusion of Parliament's winter session, to ensure the bifurcation process is delayed.
Till date, the AP Assembly did not pass any resolution either seeking bifurcation of the state or opposing it. Such a resolution is not a constitutional requirement for bifurcation or creation of a state.
But the Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu wrote separate letters to the President reminding him of the "tradition" set by the erstwhile NDA government while creating new states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand.
"Such tradition needs to be followed if AP is to be divided," they told the President.
The major cause for heartburn among Seemaandhra leaders and people is the "highhanded manner" in which the Centre has been going ahead with the bifurcation exercise by totally ignoring the concerns they raised.
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