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KCR briefs Pranab on injustice to T
KCR Briefs Pranab on Injustice to T, Telangana Bill, KCR Meets Pranab Mukherjee. Rao also apprised Pranab of the happenings in the State Assembly after the T Bill was tabled in the Assembly and pointed out the ‘conspiracies’ of Seemandhra leaders to thwart the process.
- Details its concerns over Bill
- TRS submits a memorandum
- Seeks amendments to draft Bill
- Opposes Governor’s rule in Hyd
Hyderabad: A 30-member TRS delegation led by party president K Chandrasekhar Rao called on President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Nilayam here on Thursday evening. Rao submitted a 10-page memorandum that underlined concerns of the people of Telangana in regard to the Draft T Bill, and the modifications that were required to protect the rights of the Telangana people. Briefly explaining the injustice meted out to the region since 1956 in the 20-minute meeting with the President, Rao reportedly drew his attention to the shortcomings in the Bill pertaining to Governor’s rule in Hyderabad and distribution of government employees and pensioners.
Referring to GOs 36 and 610 issued by former Chief Ministers, Rao said that over one lakh government employees working in Telangana hailed from Seemandhra region. If population instead of nativity was considered as the yardstick, the Telangana government would be burdened with payment of thousands of crores of rupees every year, the TRS chief told the President.
Rao also apprised Pranab of the happenings in the State Assembly after the T Bill was tabled in the Assembly and pointed out the ‘conspiracies’ of Seemandhra leaders to thwart the process.
KCR also urged the President to use his good office to impress upon the UPA Government to address the concerns of Telangana people on the draft Bill. He told the President that keeping in view the genesis of the demand for Telangana State, some specific provisions of the Bill needed serious reconsideration. He said the movement for separate state was based on the Gandhian principles and the tag-line of the movement was ‘Funds, Water and Jobs.’
The TRS memorandum urged that the Centre should ponder over whether the State of Telangana should be burdened with the liability of multiple assets like dams, canals, power stations, roads and housing etc. which would migrate to the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh. It also felt that employees and pensioners should be divided between the two states on the basis of their ‘nativity for insiders’ and duration of field service in the areas of two states for ‘outsiders.’
Among other issues, the memorandum said any government which had no control over law and order machinery in its capital area would lose respect in the eyes of public. The primary duty of any government the world over was to defend the country from external aggression and maintain internal law and order. Divesting Telangana of the responsibility of law and order would render it weak and therefore ineffective. The Telangana State should be treated on a par with other 28 states in the union, it said.
