BJP may press for Hyderabad as permanent Joint capital!

Questioning the Centre’s move of setting up a committee to identify new capital for Seemandhra, Andhra Pradesh BJP on Sunday demanded that the panel should immediately be scrapped.

An expert committee under K C Sivaramakrishnan, former secretary of Union Urban Development Ministry, has been set up to study various alternatives regarding the capital for the successor state of Andhra Pradesh.

“How can the union government constitute a committee while the state is under the election process?” BJP Andhra Pradesh unit chief spokesperson Sudheesh Rambhotla asked. The Centre should scrap the committee, he demanded.

Sudheesh Rambhotla joined the BJP from TDP 50 days ago and is considered very close to TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu. He was earlier the spokesperson of TDP and was a vocal proponent of making Hyderabad the 2nd capital of the country. In August, 2013, he quoted Ambedkar to do the same.
In this video from January, 2013, he made the same demand. He contested from the Secunderabad Lok Sabha in 2009 on TDP ticket and was instrumental in TDP’s campaign during the Telangana agitation from 2009 to 2014 that Hyderabad’s brand image is taking a hit due to the agitaion. It is now getting clearer that the TDP-BJP combine has some plan up it’s sleeve to scrap the process of finding a new capital for residual AP and make Hyderabad a permanent joint capital for Telangana and AP by making the city a Union Territory. BJP Telangana leadership should come clear on this and tell what their stand is.

Source: Inputs from PTI