TRS MP Kavitha assures to raise HC bifurcation in Monsoon session

Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) would take up the issue of bifurcation of High Court here from the opening day of Parliament session itself to press the Central government's intervention on the issue, a key party leader said on Friday.

"Main issue will be bifurcation of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. We will take it up from day one," Kalvakuntla Kavitha, Nizamabad Lok Sabha member and daughter of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao,said.

The High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad is currently serving both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. She said Parliament members of TRS would meet in New Delhi on July 17, a day before the commencement of the Monsoon session of the House, to decide the strategy but added that the party's protest on the issue would be serious.

In addition, many lawyers from Telangana would come down to New Delhi on various days of the session and stage protests in Jantar Mantar in the national capital to exert pressure on the bifurcation issue. "We will be expressing our solidarity with them and constantly keep the pressure on so that the government will intervene and bifurcate the High Court," Kavitha said.

Meanwhile, she said the chief minister would invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate Mission Kakatiya, a programme to rejuvenate water tanks and lakes in the state, slated next month. On GST, Kavitha said TRS has always been supportive of it as it believes its good for the country but added that her party has reservations on one or two issues.