Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday asserted that Telangana state would be a reality in the next 15 days.
He said Parliament would pass the Telangana Bill before February 15 and added that general elections will be held separately in the two new states of Telangana and residuary state of Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana has 119 and AP?175 constituencies.
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Quoting top central leaders in New Delhi, Rao said delimitation of Assembly constituencies will be taken up after the elections in Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh and will apply only to the next polls, in 2019.
He said the AP Reorganisation Bill was not rejected as mentioned in a section of the media. The Speaker made it clear that only the opinion of the House has been obtained and is being sent to the President. The resolution the CM?moved will have no bearing on the Bill, he said.
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Rao said Delhi was determined that the Telangana Bill is passed before February 15. “I know the dates but it’s not fair to reveal them. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha dates for passage of the Bill have been finalised... the appointed day is before the election notification,”?he said.
During the present legislative session, “Seemandhra leaders behaved like rakshaas (demons) in Lanka,”?remarked.
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Andhra gets vote, T Bill wins
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Legislature on Thursday fulfilled the major constitutional requirement of expressing its opinion, as sought by the President under Article 3 of the Constitution, paving the way for the Centre to introduce the Bill in the February session of Parliament for formation of Telangana as the 29th state of the Indian Union.
As with everything concerning Telangana, the last day of the 42-day debate was also marked by contradictions.
While concluding the historical debate, that was marred by adjournments and heated arguments, on the division of the state, both Houses simultaneously adopted identical resolutions rejecting the AP Reorganisation Bill, 2013, by voice vote amidst chaos and din.
In a way, the AP Legislature created history by suggesting various amendments to the Bill on the one side and rejecting the whole Bill by way of a resolution on the other.
The Presiding Officers of both Houses evolved a solution to the stalemate that was caused by the Chief Minister’s resolution negating the Telangana Bill.
They simultaneously concluded the 'listed business' of the debate without any clause-wise voting, and adopted the resolution by voice vote, thereby keeping both pro-United AP and pro-Telangana groups happy.
The resolution that was adopted on Thursday will not have any bearing on the Centre, which has also received several suggestions to the Telangana Bill which directly indicated that the Legislature has expressed its views on the Bill that was sent by the President.
With the AP Legislature having completed the formality, it is now for the Centre to take forward the Telangana process and complete it during the February 5-21 Parlia-ment session.
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GoM to meet on Feb. 4 to discuss amendments
Hyderabad: The Group of Ministers will be meeting on February 4 to consider the views and expressions of the AP Legislature as well as the amendments suggested by individual legislators to several clauses in the Bill, and prepare the 'final Bill' before it is sent to the President who in turn will give his assent for introducing it in either House of Parliament.
It is not only the question of time, as Parliament needs to approve the Telangana Bill along with several other key Bills that are pending with it before February 21.
Much depends on the ever-changing dynamics of coalition politics, how the main Opposition BJP, which has committed its support for smooth passage of the Bill, keeping its word.
If the BJP changes its mind at the last moment, it will be difficult for the ruling Congress to have its say in Parliament.
