K Chandrasekhar Rao will also meet ministers Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, currently in New Delhi, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament on Monday, when the Monsoon Session begins.
Mr Rao has also secured an appointment with Union home minister Rajnath Singh followed by one with Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, also on Monday.
Mr Rao had sought the PM’s appointment to discuss the issue of bifurcation of the High Court and several other bifurcation-related issues between Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh.
The meeting with Mr Rajnath Singh assumes significance as the Home ministry is the nodal agency for implementing the AP Reorganisation Act. Mr Rao wants to bring to the notice of both the Prime Minister and Home Minister the non-implementation of various provisions of the Act, even after two years of bifurcation.
The Chief Minister, who went to New Delhi to take part in Saturday’s inter-state council meeting convened by the Prime Minister with the Chief Ministers of all states, decided to stay back for four days.
Split issues to top agenda
The Chief Minister will meet Mr Modi and Union ministers for resolution of the long-pending bifurcation issues. “The bifurcation of the High Court is on top of the CM’s agenda. The recent judicial officers and lawyers’ strike in Telangana, demanding bifurcation of the High Court, had paralysed judicial activities in the state. There is an urgent need for bifurcation of the High Court,” said Mr A.P. Jitender Reddy, TRS floor leader in Lok Sabha.
The CM’s agenda with Mr Rajnath Singh is mainly to discuss the bifurcation of Schedule IX and X institutions, mostly located in Hyderabad.
Mr Rao wants these institutions to be divided based on their geographical location, while AP has been pitching for division based on the population ratio of 52:48 between AP and TS. The CM is expected to urge both Mr Modi and Mr Singh to file an affidavit in Supreme Court in support of TS on this issue.
