A care taker CM for United AP says Shinde
HYDERABAD: Keeping the hopes of chief ministerial aspirants on either side of the divide alive, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday said it may take three months for the process of bifurcation of the State to be completed.
Stating that ensuing general elections (both Lok Sabha and Assembly) may be held in an undivided Andhra Pradesh as bifurcation would not be complete by then, Shinde said a final decision on the issue would be taken by the Election Commission.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, he further said no decision was taken yet either on imposition of President's rule in the State or installing a new chief minister.
'We are taking steps to make alternative arrangements in Andhra Pradesh following N Kiran Kumar Reddy's resignation from the Chief Minister's post. The party high command will decide who should be the new chief minister,' the Home Minister said.
Against this backdrop, Congress leaders from either side of the regional divide in the State such as State Congress chief Botcha Satyanarayana, Deputy Chief Minister C Damodara Rajanarasimha and Ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana, Anam Ramanarayana Reddy and N Raghuveera Reddy are learnt to have intensified efforts to persuade Delhi to consider one among them to be the 'last Chief Minister' of the United Andhra Pradesh.
Sources said the Congress high command will take a final call either on imposition of President's rule or installing a new government in the State in the next couple of days.
News Posted: 24 February, 2014
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