In a sign that can bode no good to anyone in the already troubled Andhra Pradesh, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao categorically stated that employees from Seemandhra would have to vacate posts held in the Telangana region once the new state is created.
According to information, a letter from Rao to the Group of Ministers (GoM) which was constituted to look into the grievances of all parties before the state was officially formed, had said that Seemandhra employees were ‘illegally’ recruited into government jobs, and needed to be removed.
The report quoted the letter as saying: “As per our rough estimation, 30% of the government employees presently working in Telangana belong to Seemandhra and all of them were illegally recruited over the decades,” the letter signed by KCR and sent to the GoM says. “The Telangana employees have suffered gross injustice at the hands of AP govt.
Many non-locals who were recruited against quota of 20% (Dist category), 30% (Non-gazetted category) and 40% (Gazetted category) have to be repatriated based on the definition of “local candidate” as defined in the Presidential Order 1975, and on the basis of nativity as reflected in the service registers.”
The letter is certain to create further tension in Andhra Pradesh, where news of the bifurcation saw a prolonged strike across all sectors, including a complete outage that threatened to trip the entire southern grid. The GoM which received the letter from Rao and the TRS, will submit its report to the cabinet ahead of parliament’s winter session, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said. “We will submit the report before the winter session begins,” Shinde told reporters.
The session is likely in December. However he has refused to say by when the new state would be formed “There is a process. When parliament passes the Telangana bill, the new state will come,” he said. The seven-member GoM has held two meetings in the past few weeks in which it has held detailed discussions over sharing of natural resources like river water, land, power, distribution of assets and demarcation of boundaries.
The panel will also examine how both Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh can function efficiently from Hyderabad, their common capital for 10 years. The panel has sought detailed reports department-wise both fom central and state ministries. These together with public feedback on the proposed bifurcation will be debated in the next meeting of the GoM 7 November.
Congress, TDP in a quandary over reply to GoM on Telangana
Torn between the internal lobbies of Telangana and Seemandhra, the ruling Congress and the principal opposition TDP are in quandary over responding to the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana that has solicited suggestions from the political parties on the vexatious division issue.
In Congress, while the top leaders including chief minster N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana have been trying to position themselves as the crusaders of Samaikyandhra, Telangana leaders in the party are urging them to send a reply to the GOM in favour of bifurcation.
“The GoM has sought our views on its terms of reference including contentious issues relating to division. The Telangana wing urges the party leadership to stick to the lines of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) that has taken a decision in favour of the separate statehood. The CM and the PCC president have to fall in line and write to the GoM that the state unit of the party supports the division,” said B Kamalakra Rao, senior Congress leader from Telangana.
However, the Seemandhra leaders demanded the CM to oppose the bifurcation move, while some of them even urged him to quit the Congress to launch a new party. “We are happy that we have a strong leader in the CM, who minces no words. We want him a strong reply to the GoM against bifurcation, but demand him not to drag this issue,” said TG Venkatesh, minor irrigation minister, who is in the forefront of the Samaikyandhra movement.
Amidst the tug of war, Kiran Reddy and Botsa are scheduled to meet the leaders from Telangana and Seemandhra separately on Monday. The PCC president told TOI that he would decide on sending a reply to the GoM based on the outcome of the meetings.
Caught in a similar situation, the Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday convened an informal meeting with his party colleagues from Seemandhra, but could not decide on sending reply to the GoM. “We can understand the position of the party leadership.
While the Seemandhra leaders want the party to express its opinion clearly in favour of the united state, Telangana leaders want to stick to the letter given to the Centre in favour of the division. But Naidu is for equitable justice for both the regions and we stand by him,” said B Goplakrishna Reddy, a TDP MLA, who attended the meeting.
Not willing to compromise on the separate statehood, the Telangana leaders of the party urged Naidu to write to the GoM supporting Telanagna.
“The party has given a letter in favour of Telangana. Now, there must be no ambiguity. If we dither at this stage, then we might have to lose the trust of people. We demand the party leadership to write to the GoM without any delay,” said Jaipal Yadav, a TDP leader from Telangana.
Sources said Naidu would consult the TDP leaders from both the regions on Monday and would take a call on sendng a reply to the GoM.
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