The Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy once more put forward his objections on the way the State bifurcation the Center is keen about. This time he has written a letter to the President Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh instead of the party high command.
Kiran Kumar says “The minimum we expect from the Government of India is to follow established practices and conventions. As a first step, refer the matter to the Assembly for appropriate resolution. After getting the resolution [passed] and building consensus among various stakeholders, the Bill can be sent to the President for further reference to the legislature.”
Kiran Kumar strongly objects the Center trying to bypass the Assembly’s resolution in an important matter like bifurcation of the State. He says that the conventions procedures should not be ignored in a major issue like bifurcation.
Showing concern about the irrigation projects and water sharing, education, employment and medical facilities concentrated in and around the city of Hyderabad, Kiran Kumar Reddy said that there is no precedent that the existing capital is given to a newly formed State.
Kiran Kumar questioned why the Government doesn’t wait for the committee's reports and why the issue is not discussed in the Parliament and why the Telangana Note is introduced in the Cabinet as a Table Item?
He also objected the GoM in which the Ministers like Water Resources, Power, Urban Development, HRD and Planning Commission were not included.
He said that the opinion of the majority of the people in the State is not given its due importance by the Government in taking the decision of bifurcation. He said that the people of the State are taking a serious view of the way the Government has taken in the issue in question ignoring the sentiments of the majority of the people in the State.
Kiran Kumar Reddy made it clear in his separate letters to the President and the Prime Minister that the Telangana State issue must come to the Assembly for its resolution but it should not take any short cuts in an attempt to push it through under any circumstances.
-SriJa
