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Vatti terms bifurcation undemocratic, arbitrary
Vatti terms bifurcation undemocratic, arbitrary, Bifurcate the State. Initiating the debate on the AP Reorganisation Bill-2013 in the Assembly, the Minister said after the State’s bifurcation.
• Post division, Seemandhra will turn into backward state
• It will be deprived of education, employment opportunities
Hyderabad: Terming the Centre’s decision to bifurcate the State as arbitrary, undemocratic and anti-constitutional and against federal spirit, Tourism and Youth Affairs Minister Vatti Vasant Kumar on Thursday warned that the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh would turn into the most backward State in the country if the State was divided.
Initiating the debate on the AP Reorganisation Bill-2013 in the Assembly, the Minister said after the State’s bifurcation, the Seemandhra people would lose all facilities enjoyed by the people in the united Andhra Pradesh.
“Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema people would be deprived of higher education and employment opportunities as all the reputed educational institutions exist only in and around Hyderabad, which had emerged as the IT hub providing lakhs of jobs to youth in the State. It would take at least five decades for the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh to reach the level of growth which Hyderabad had seen in the united Andhra Pradesh,’’ he stated.
He further said that the residuary State would suffer on account of lack of funds after the division.
“With no industries there, the residuary State would remain an agrarian State and would also not be in a position even to pay salaries and pensions to the employees and develop basic infrastructure. When the Union government is itself struggling for finances, it would not be possible for the Centre to provide adequate assistance to the development of the residuary State,’’ Vasanth Kumar pointed. He questioned the Centre for not taking into consideration the recommendations made by Srikrishna Commission the issue of State’s division.
“The Commission recommended the Centre to elicit consensus from all stakeholders before the bifurcation, but the Centre has ignored it. The then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram made a statement on December 9 that the process for the formation of the Telangana State would be initiated after the Assembly adopted a resolution. The Centre also violated the recommendations of Sarkaria and Punchhi Commissions, which stressed that the resolution by the State Assembly was necessary to divide the State,’’ he mentioned. Announcing that he would write to the Centre against the ‘unilateral’ decision to create the Telangana State, the Minister said it was Seemandhra people who contributed a lion’s share to the development of Hyderabad.
