T to challenge Polavaram Bill in SC
HYDERABAD: With the Lok Sabha Friday passing the contentious Polavaram Bill for the merger of over 200 villages of Telangana with Andhra Pradesh, the government of Telangana is planning to challenge it in the Supreme Court.
Terming the central government's move "undemocratic" and "unconstitutional", Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said he was consulting legal luminaries and constitutional experts. "The fight will continue. The modalities will be announced later," said a statement from the chief minister's office.
He said passing the bill to convert an ordinance issued last month into a legislation was a clear cut violation of article 3 of the constitution as the consent of Telangana was not taken.
It was unethical on the part of NDA government, to pass ordinance in this manner, just because it enjoyed a majority in the Lok Sabha, he added.
Rao said that the union government should have taken into confidence the Telangana government and should have obtained its consent before passing this ordinance in Parliament.
The MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telugu Desam Party should have opposed the ordinance, he said. He said the issue could have been amicably settled by changing the design of Polavaram project.
News Posted: 11 July, 2014
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