Dec 10th – National media already guessing T Bill’s date in Parliament!

While the Andhra media is busy spreading rumours about how Telangana bill can be stopped at AP assembly, Time Of India reported today that T Bill may be placed in Parliament on Dec 10th! It went on and reported as below (accentuation made for this post)-

The government sources said the debate on the T bill will be a short one. “In the case of the Uttar Pradesh Reorganization Bill 2000, the time allotted was just four hours. This time also, the ruling party would not allow the debate to go out of hand. At best, three to fours hours will be allotted for the debate,” the sources said.

According to the sources, none of the Seemandhra leaders would be given a chance to speak on the bill. “The principal speaker from the ruling benches will be home minister Sushilkumar Shinde who will pilot the bill,” they said. Except the BJP, none of the political parties would get more than five minutes to speak as the Congress wants to finish the debate as early as possible, the sources said and added that the plan of the UAP government is to take steps to ensure that the two states come into existence on New Year Day (January 1), 2014.

Other media outlets also reported on the amount of time AP assembly may be given to respond before proceeding ahead. Going by these reports, the centre and the national media either seem to ignore or see as inconsequential AP CM’s statement’s on ‘obstructing’ the bill and Andhra media’s rumors on possible ways of blocking the Telangana bill using AP assembly.