Rajahmundry: As the AP Reorganisation Bill-2013 lacks clarity on several key issues pertaining to the bifurcation, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now raising apprehensions over the Centre's commitment to complete the prestigious multi-purpose Indira Sagar Polavaram project.
Though the Centre has assured to accord national project status and complete it, the BJP has its own reason to suspect Centre's commitment as it failed to merge the Bhadrachalam revenue division of Khammam district with East Godavari district.
Moreover, if the state is bifurcated, the newly formed Telangana state government's nod is must to go ahead with the execution of the project.
The party's views gained importance following the recent remarks of the Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh who stated that Polavaram could no longer be a multi-purpose project.
He added that he had accepted the project bowing to the pressure exerted by former chief minister late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, though it faces several ecological and environmental hurdles.
The BJP doesn't want any alterations in the present design of the project given the fact that it helps irrigation in coastal districts and Rayalaseema region also.
The BJP also wondered as to how the Centre could accord joint capital status to Hyderabad for a period of 10 years as such practice is unprecedented in the country so far and added that such exercise required constitutional amendment.
The party blamed the Centre for creating legal complications on the issue and made it clear that Hyderabad should not be joint capital without carrying out relevant provisions in the Constitution.
If the Centre intends to do so, such act will certainly fail to stand legal scrutiny in the apex court, the party opined.
On political front, the BJP leaders maintained that they were not against the bifurcation provided the interests of Seemandhra people were safeguarded.
BJP national executive committee member Somu Veerraju said, "We have asked our state leadership to support the T-bill in the Assembly only on the condition that the people from residuary state should not be subjected to injustice.
We have briefed our national leaders on several typical issues arising due to bifurcation.
Though the Congress is conspiring to pass the T-bill with simple majority in the Lok Sabha, our party leaders will certainly thwart such move to protect the interests of Seemandhra people.
