Barricades, barbed wires and steel frames have emerged once again in secretariat.This time not against agitators but as a mental block between Telangana and Seemandhra employees.30 days since the celebrations of bifurcation, both Telagnana and Seemandhra political leaders are now at loggerheads over pains and spoils of the division of the state.
The war of words unleashed by the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh ministers reached a flash point this week over several unresolved and thorny issues like sharing of river water,Power PPAs and even the employees options. The politicos even dragged the Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan into a fresh controversy over setting up a vertical barricade in the middle of the secretariat as per the alleged orders of the Governor,driving the governor to issue a strong denial that he had never ordered it, ever.
The TRS strongman and Telangana irrigation minister T Harish Rao fired a missile towards AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s remark over barricades between the blocks allocated to both states in Secretariat. “Barricade decision was taken by the Governor and T government has nothing to do with it” he said . When Raj Bhavan issued denial that it had no role in the fencing decision the T minister made public a GO 426 issued on 26 April, like a slap on Raj Bhavan’s face. Governor Narasimhan hit back by rejecting the T govt file on elevation of Assembly secretary Raja Sadaram to cabinet status.
The Governor is also not happy over the defiance in release of 10 TMC of Krishna river water to Krishna delta. Initial reports said the Governor has okayed release of only 3.6tmc. Raj Bhavan again denied the report . When both Krishna water board and Governor defended the AP demand for 10 TMC of Krishna water, Harish Rao slammed gov as one sided decision without consulting the T government.
T Govt is confronting with centre and AP time and again . It scrapped the allocation of 189 acres of land in Hyderabad for APNGOs housing society allocated in 2008, on the charge that no development since six years. APNGO president said today that 100 acres of the land allocated is under litigation and 89 acres under encroachment. “Some parties have gone to supreme court and hence we could not take up developmental activities” he said after meeting the revenue officials and the Minister . Now it has taken back AP Film Devp Corporation lands and is set to take back CESS land in Begumpet.
A senior TRS leader and MP Vinod Kumar, said “TDP is deliberately poking us and trying to belittle our leader KCR and our good intentions to not get into a brawl with AP leadership”.The barricade in the secretariat and the opposite stands on Polavaram, Krishna waters, Tuition fee reimbursements, Gurukul lands, and Employees options are some of the teething issues that keep both ruling party's jumping at each others jugular.
Behind all these posturing is that both governments are awaiting the others move on the issue of farmers loan waiver. AP is looking at a burden of over Rs.75,000 crore and the Telagnana is saddled with Rs.32,000 crore. So political analysts that battle between both state leaderships is just a posturing to keep public attention away from the key five burning issues mentioned above.
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