Two years after bifurcation, Telangana and AP continue to spar over assets

Hyderabad: The deadlock over sharing of assets and liabilities of institutions listed in the 10th Schedule between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state continues.

TS Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has written to the Union home ministry informing that his government has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao said that Telangana state won’t agree to share assets on the basis of population.

At the same time TS Chief Secretary Rajeev Sharma has sent a letter to his AP counterpart, informing him of the same. In the meeting convened by the Union home ministry on Tuesday in New Delhi to discuss the sharing of assets and liabilities of the institutions listed in the 10th schedule, home ministry officials said that they will take a decision after going through the letter sent by Mr Chandrasekhar Rao.

The meeting was attended by secretaries of AP and TS governments, L Premachandra Reddy and K. Rama Krishna Rao, respectively.

In the meeting, Mr Premachandra Reddy reminded the home ministry that it has to take a decision two months time as directed by the Supreme Court since there was no stay order on the review petition filed by the Telangana state government. He said that a petition on the issue was not even admitted by the Supreme Court.

The TS Principal Secretary said that the Supreme Court judgment applied only to the Board of Intermediate issue. To this, Mr Premachandra Reddy said that the Supreme Court ruling applies to all the 142 institutions listed in the 10th Schedule.