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Cong, TRS blame game in Assembly on mandal merger
The merger of seven mandals of Khammam district with Andhra Pradesh rocked the Telangana Assembly on Monday with both the ruling and the Opposition parties blaming each other on the issue. While the Congress tried to corner the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government for failing to stop the merger,
Hyderabad: The merger of seven mandals of Khammam district with Andhra Pradesh rocked the Telangana Assembly on Monday with both the ruling and the Opposition parties blaming each other on the issue. While the Congress tried to corner the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government for failing to stop the merger, the ruling party hit back at the main Opposition saying the decision was taken by the previous United Progressive Alliance headed by the Congress.
Trouble broke out when Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao held former Union minister Jairam Ramesh responsible for the merger of the seven mandals with Andhra Pradesh. He said Ramesh claimed that the Union Home Ministry had not changed even a word of the draft report he had submitted to it. Harish said while the Congress conceived the idea, the National Democratic Alliance government implemented it.
He also criticised the Congress for not opposing the relevant Bill when it came up in the Rajya Sabha. He said it was TRS member K Keshav Rao who spoke at length on the issue and strongly opposed the move. Congress members G Chinna Reddy and P Ajay Kumar pointed out that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, soon after the merger, stated that it was a closed chapter and accepted the merger. They also said that KCR had promised to take a delegation to New Delhi on this issue but failed to do so.
Taking objection to this, Harish said it was KCR who gave a bandh call against the act and the Congress never fought against the merger. He even remarked that Ajay was a first time MLA and had migrated from YSRCP to the Congress and had no knowledge about the bifurcation of the State. Angry over this remark, the Congress members again trooped into the well and demanded that the minister withdrew his remark.
