New Delhi: TRS MP and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha told this newspaper that the government did not follow the due process of consulting the state Assembly before bringing the Bill in Lok Sabha.
“It is a very old issue and the government has insulted all rules today. We appeal to all political parties and MPs to support us. We will move the Supreme Court against passing of this Bill and we will emerge victorious. This Bill will surely be scrapped (by the SC),” she told this newspaper.
She said the BJP government never consulted the Telangana Assembly before bringing out this Ordinance. “This was necessary for the Union government according to existing rules. But none was followed and the Bill was directly introduced in Parliament and passed as well,” she said.
Ms Kavitha said she and her party were confident of a victory in the Supreme Court when the case is taken up for hearing. “We will move the Supreme Court and we will win,” she said.
The TRS MPs also held a protest near the Gandhi statue in the Parliament House complex.
Hyderabad MP and MIM chief Assaduddin Owaisi criticised the manner in which the Bill was passed. “The government has not followed the due procedures. The mandals come under two Parliamentary constituencies and if they are transferred to Andhra Pradesh, what will happen to the people? What is the use of delimitation exercise then?” he asked.
He told this newspaper that it was an “unhealthy practice” to pass a bill through voice vote when the Government had “brute majority”.
However, Leader of Opposition in AP Assembly Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy welcomed the passage of the Bill, saying this was mandated under the original law.
“We welcome it. The transfer of these villages are necessary for completion of the Pola-varam project,” he said.
Asked about the Bill being passed amid din, Mr Reddy said: “Even the Bill that bifurcated Andhra Pradesh was passed amid din. We all remember how the state was bifurcated.
Televisions were switched off and there was no live telecast.”
