Hyderabad: AP Bhavan assets in Delhi belong to erstwhile Hyderabad state and not to united Andhra Pradesh state. So AP government has no right on sharing AP Bhavan assets. This is the argument of Telangana government on the sharing of AP Bhavan assets.
To place its argument before the meeting scheduled on November 21 at Delhi, the Telangana government has finalised its stand. It has prepared a note with all the details of AP Bhavan assets to support its argument.
Meanwhile AP CMO asked officials to attend the cabinet meeting scheduled on November 15 in Vijayawada to discuss the sharing of AP Bhavan assets. AP Chief Secretary S.P. Tucker on Monday held discussions with officials at Hyderabad.
Telangana government’s argument is that the Nizam of Hyderabad state obtained 18.18 acres of land in Delhi from the Centre in three bits in 1917, 1928 and 1936 as per records of the foreign and political department of the then Central government. Hyderabad House and AP, Telangana Bhavan are situated on these lands at present.
The Centre later took over Hyderabad House and 7.56 acres at the Pataudi House site and 1.21 acres of the Nursing Institute was allotted to the then AP government in lieu of this property. Therefore these properties belong to the State of Hyderabad under Nizam which remained a separate state even after the Independence.
The TS argument is that it was eventually included in the union in 1948. Incidentally AP did not exist then, as it was carved out of Madras state only in October 1953 while the state of Hyderabad continued to exist from 1948 until November 1956 when Andhra state was merged with the Telugu speaking areas of Hyderabad state to create AP the state of Andhra Pradesh on 1st November 1956.
Telangana state was formed on 2nd June 2014m which was a case of demerger rather than the creation of a new state. This part which was added to the erstwhile state of Hyderabad has now been separated again and it is now the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh, which is the same and not different from the Andhra state as it existed from 1953 to 1956.
The property situated in Delhi belonged to the Nizam and subsequently to Hyderabad state in the union of India. It should devolve to Telangana state and cannot be divided between AP and TS.
