Andhra Pradesh CM seeks rejection of Telangana bill

January 27, 2014 13:49

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's decision to move a resolution in the state assembly seeking a rejection of the Telangana bill has put a question mark over the legislation's fate.

Speaker N Manohar will today take a call on the resolution, moved two days earlier by Reddy, but it has already raised the political temperature in the state, provoking the Telangana and Seemandhra MLAs to stall the proceedings of the assembly for half-an-hour this morning.

In an abrupt move that stumped the Congress strategists, Reddy had on Saturday invoked Rule 77 while forwarding a resolution stating, "The assembly resolves to request the President not to recommend the AP (Reoganisation) Bill for introduction in Parliament as it seeks to bifurcate the state without any reason/basis."

If the Speaker allows Reddy, who heads the Congress government in the state, to move the resolution, it is likely to get the assembly's nod as the chief minister is certain to receive the backing of a majority of the MLAs from the coastal and Rayalseema regions. This may upset the Centre's plans to seek the passage of the bill in Parliament when it resumes its proceedings on February 5.

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