T Cong leaders demand what is already granted!

T Congress leaders are demanding to increase assembly seats from 119 to 153. The surprising part is that reports from Delhi say that that GoM already made the recommendation. As this recommendation is Telangana’s internal matter, unrelated to Andhra interests, this would not find any opposition. In fact, such recommendations have been done earlier too while re-organizing States, like in case of Uttar Pradesh. Upon this recommendation, the EC would do further delimitation of Assembly Constituencies in Telangana just like the way it did in case of Uttaranchal where it reorganized 22 assembly constituencies from erstwhile Uttar Pradesh into 70 assembly constituencies for addressing issue of political instability. It took around 6 months for EC to do that. So Telangana would have it’s assembly constituencies redrawn before next election in almsot similar time period.

In case of Telangana, the points of interest would be delimitation of constituencies with large settler population within Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts as well as delimitation in Khammam district which may be used to leave areas adjoining Godavari for Polavaram project to protect Andhra’s interests.

However, what is interesting right now is how T Congress leaders instead of pressing on critical issue like the so-called Centre’s oversight of law & order in Hyderabad, are pressing on an issue that is insignificant and which has already been included. Looks like few T Cong leaders want ‘credit’, in their race for CM post, for such insignificant decision, by ‘demanding’ it when they know its already done!