Keep AP united: Jagan to President
Hyderabad: YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday called upon President Pranab Mukherjee and submitted a memorandum urging him to keep the state united.
Jagan in his memorandum to the President stated that the Centre's decision to divide the state was without any valid reasons and was purely based on narrow political considerations and was therefore unconstitutional.
Jagan urged Mukherjee to direct the Centre to immediately withdraw the decision taken by the Council of Ministers at their Cabinet meeting on October 3 to bifurcate India's first linguistic state and in complete disregard to the prevailing conventions and practices which require the Centre to initiate action under Article 3 of the Constitution of India, for the creation of new states.
The division of a State can be done only upon receipt of a request from the State Assembly by way of a resolution or on the basis of the recommendation of a Commission or a Committee constituted exclusively for that purpose.
The only committee that the Centre has appointed on the subject of creation of Telangana viz Justice Srikrishna Committee which recommended in unambiguous terms that Andhra Pradesh is best kept united in the larger interest of all the three regions of the State, YSRCP memorandum highlighted.
The memorandum further stated that the Centre does not have in place any policy for creation of new states. It is perplexing as to how, in the absence of any policy for creation of new states, the Centre
could initiate the process for creation of Telangana by bifurcating the State.
It further said that all the states that have been created so far under Article 3 of the Constitution, were on the basis of recommendations of committees like JVP, Dar and Wanchoo. But in case of Andhra Pradesh, none of the established conventions were followed.
Jagan submitted another report to the President urging him to direct the Centre to come to the rescue of the farmers who were affected by the recent Phailin cyclone.
The party demanded that the government should announce a fresh debt waiver scheme to help the farmers. The memorandum also demanded that the Centre should ensure procurement of partly damaged and discoloured paddy, cotton, sugarcane, maize and other horticulture products.
News Posted: 5 November, 2013
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