Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday called on Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan with a request to allot the AP Secretariat, Legislative Assembly and Council buildings to Telangana state.
He handed over a copy of the resolution approved by the Cabinet in this regard two days ago to the Governor.
Mr Rao said that since these buildings were lying vacant after AP shifting its administration to Amaravati, the TS government should be allowed to utilise them. Though Mr Narasimhan is the authority under Section 8 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 to allot buildings in the common capital, he reportedly informed Mr Rao that he needed to send the request to the AP government for a formal approval.
CMO sources said Mr Rao offered the Manoranjan Complex beside the Exhi-bition Grounds in Nampally to the AP government in lieu of its Secretariat blocks.
Sources said that the Governor informed Mr Rao about his recent meeting with AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada, where he had brought up the Secretariat issue. Mr Naidu apparently told him that his government would take a decision after discussing it in the Cabinet.
The Governor is learnt to have told Mr Rao that Mr Naidu had no major objections to hand over the AP Secretariat blocks. Mr Rao also informed the Governor about his government's plans to shift the TS Secretariat in the last week of November to BRK Bhavan and other government buildings and start construction of the new Secretariat from December and ensure its completion within a year.
