AP division on regional lines?

The GoM came out with certain crafts like the GHMC area will be the common capital for a maximum period of 10 years. The governor of Telangana will have special responsibility for the security of life, liberty and property of all those who reside in the common capital area. GoM also stated that the Governor of Telangana will be assisted by two advisors but the Telangana protagonists will not purely support for the reason that one cannot have two different authorities for the common capital. It restricts the power of Chief Minister.

If the union government relinquish law and order subject to Governor, which comes under seventh schedule of the Indian constitution, then there should be a constitutional amendment by special majority of two-third MPs. So it evolves a difficult locus for passing T-bill in Parliament.

Law and order is a state subject and the bill finds a easy way to pass in Parliament without handing it over to the governor, which needs a simple majority according to Article 3 of the Indian constitution.

Federalism in India has a strong bias towards the Union Government unlike the federal governments of the United States, Switzerland or Australia. The consent of a state is not required by the Parliament to alter its boundaries. If any provision of a law made by the Legislature of a State is repugnant to any provision of a law made by Parliament which Parliament is competent to enact, or to any provision of an existing law with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List, then, the law made by Parliament, whether passed before or after the law made by the Legislature of such State, or, as the case may be, the existing law, shall prevail and the law made by the Legislature of the State shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void.

The core reason to carve Hyderabad, a joint capital, is that many seemandhra people reside and have their businesses here. But apart from Hyderabad, the seemandhra people also reside in other 9 districts of Telangana. What about their security? Will each and every district be brought under Governor rule? Let’s see what happens next...