EXCLUSIVE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main opposition in Parliament, will not support the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill-2013 in its present form, top leaders said in what appears to be a body blow to Telangana prospects.
Senior BJP leaders said the Congress was playing vote bank politics on the issue of AP bifurcation and the party has decided not to support such a move.
“The BJP is committed to the cause of Telangana, but not the way the Congress is dealing with it now. The BJP will deliver on the statehood once our government is formed in Delhi and it would be acceptable for the people of both Telangana and Seemandhra,” party president Rajnath Singh said in New Delhi.
His party spokesman Prakash Javadekar, who was in Hyderabad to attend a party event, echoed similar sentiments and expressed serious doubts about the Centre tabling the Bill in Parliament before the general elections are notified in March next year.
In a scathing attack on the Congress, Javadekar said the UPA government had created a crisis in Andhra Pradesh as it has divided the people even before announcing division of the state. “The Congress did not follow what Atalji showed about how a state should be divided. The Congress has shown how it should not be done,” said Javadekar at a party event, recalling how the NDA government successfully formed the three states of Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh.
Terming the Congress way of approaching state division as ‘votebank politics,’ the BJP spokesperson said his party would not support it, unless the interest of the people of Seemandhra are protected and their consent is taken.
“Seemandhra is also India and people of Seemandhra are our people. How can we allow the Congress to go ahead with their own political plans ignoring the grievances of Seemandhra people?” Javadekar asked.
Analysts said the latest statements by BJP leaders assume significance as it might throw water on celebrations by Telangana enthusiasts and the passage of the T-Bill in Parliament could fall through if the UPA government fails to muster enough numbers for smooth passage of the Bill. While BJP has 114 votes in the 537-member Lok Sabha, the Samajwadi Party (SP) with 22 seats has clearly said it would not support the division of AP, despite supporting FDI in retail and the Food Security Bill.
With YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy roping in parties like Trinamool Congress (19), AIDMK (9), Biju Janata Dal (14), the numbers are slowly swaying against the formation of Telangana, they said.
Even the Congress with 205 seats cannot ensure full support of its own party members as its seven MPs from Seemandhra are opposed to it and even issued notice to move a no-trust motion against its own government.
T Bill to rock assembly
The state assembly is expected to witness a stormy session as the secretary tables the draft Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill-2013 on Monday amid a rift between pro and anti-Telangana members. While pro-Telangana members cutting across party lines are demanding that the government take up a debate on the draft bill with top priority, the Seemandhra lobby led by the Chief Minister is determined to press for a resolution to be passed before considering any discussion on the bill.
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We have not voted the current assembly, parliament, or lok-sabha members to split AP and, so they have no right to allow the bill
to be passed. Nor does the PM, Sonia White, or President, Supreme court have such a right.
A call for referendum if AP has to be split.Upon the AP residents majority voting in favor can only it be split. We AP residents
will have to get to international attention and human rights violations committed by Sonia Gandhi, Man Mohan Singh and, president
of India(who should be the guard of its peoples wills and rights) .
The Parliament and President the constitutional head of the country definitely has no right on splitting AP? They are violating
human rights of the residents of AP? The Parliament and President did not take vote on the issue and thus tanta-mounts to
violations of AP residents.
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