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Bapatla MLA chants unity mantra
Special Correspondent
GUNTUR: Freedom fighter Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s efforts to bring together 595 princely states and former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s vision to have a united country as a reply to division proposals in 1972 will be in vain if Telangana was given.
Airing these views, the Bapatla MLA and Constituencies Delimitation Commission member Gade Venkata Reddy said that on the day of Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary and Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s birth anniversary people of Andhra Pradesh should move towards a united State, not looking at the narrow personal gains.
PRP stance flayed
Expressing his discomfort at the Praja Rajyam Party founder’s statement that if Telangana was given, the PRP would accept it, Mr. Reddy said that it was the Congress-led UPA or the NDA leader BJP, which could create Telangana, but both the parties had not yet expressed their official views before the Pranab Mukherjee Committee.
“If Telangana was carved out, it had to be done along with demand from 17 other states for similar division and within Andhra Pradesh it will not stop with Telangana, but Rayalaseema, north-Andhra and Hyderabad region would also come up with similar demands,” the MLA pointed out.
‘Hold referendum’
There was no provision for referendum on this issue in our Constitution, but if such a process was taken up in Khammam, Nalgonda, Mehbubnagar and Greater Hyderabad, people would oppose carving out of Telangana, he opined. Election results in the 16 Assembly seats recently explain how Telangana Rashtra Samiti had lost its hold in the Telangana region and at majority of the places it had lost deposit, he added.
Pranab Mukherjee Committee believes in consensus and consent of people of the majority before forming a new State, he believes.
Second SRC
Congress party on its own believes in formation of Second States Reconstitution Commission for determining the pros and cons of forming smaller states, he concluded.
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