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Separate polls in two States?
Separate polls in two States?, Telangana Bill in Lok Sabha, Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns. The Union Cabinet will take a decision to impose Presidents rule in a day or two and will get the Parliament’s nod before the session comes to end.
- Congress not in favour of continuing Kiran as interim CM
- It is likely to impose President Rule after he steps down
- Cabinet may seek Parliament nod for amendment to Bill
- This will help take up delimitation exercise in both regions
Hyderabad: Having succeeded in passing the T Bill in Lok Sabha, the Congress high command is contemplating to impose President’s Rule soon after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns on Wednesday, and would later decide on postponement of elections in both the States by six months. The party, it is said, is not in favour of having him as the interim Chief Minister for Andhra Pradesh.
The Union Cabinet will take a decision to impose Presidents rule in a day or two and will get the Parliament’s nod before the session comes to end. If the government takes a final decision to postpone the elections, it will have to bring in amendments to the T Bill. Though no such amendment has been made in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, it is said that the government is likely to introduce the amendment in Rajya Sabha when the Bill will be introduced on Wednesday.
The party, sources feel, that this will help Congress party in the Seemandhra region as by that time the passions would have subsided and it will also give enough time for the government to take up delimitation process in Telangana which becomes the 29th state of India and the state of Andhra Pradesh. While the T leaders want that the number of Assembly seats to be increased from present 119 to 153, the Seemandhra region wants that there should be 225 Assembly seats instead of the present 175. Delimitation will help in providing a stable government, they say. Though some Seemandhra Congress leaders who are at present in Delhi claim that the high command will not opt for postponing the elections, the other section says that the party leadership had indicated that it would bring amendments and extend the term of assembly by six months and take up delimitation process. This issue figured during the talks the Seemandhra leaders like Botcha Satyanarayana and others had with AICC leaders like Ahmed Patel, Azad and Digvijay Singh.
The high command leaders had made it clear that division of the State was inevitable and the two States would come into existence in February. It would take at least six months time for delimitation process and hence two new governments would be there in the two states, the Congress leadership told them. The party feels by that time all those who want to quit would have left, and it would give it time to find replacements. It also hopes that by that time the TRS would merge with it, which improve its fortunes in T region. In Seemandhra, the party would suffer some dent, but would not be wiped out, the high command feels.
