In an interview with a national business daily, Chandrababu Naidu said he would insist whoever comes to power in Center to review the AP Bifurcation Bill to to protect the interests of Seemandhra people living in Hyderabad. He claimed that Modi also assured to work out suitable measures to protect the interests of Seemandhra people living in Hyderabad. Chandrababu pointed out that the UPA Govt violated Constitutional provisions by making Hyderabad a joint capital and that courts would dismiss that and the next union Govt. has to decide on the status of Hyderabad. The full interview can be seen here.

Supreme Court poured cold water on the efforts of Anti-Telangana activists trying to use legalities to thwart the bifurcation process. While the SC took up the petition to hear their plea, it refused to grant interim relief. Justice Dattu declined to grant interim relief despite a plea by Rajeev Dhavan arguing on behalf of United AP protagonists. Congress MP Arun Kumar also made a vehement plea to get the matter listed before June 2 as on that day Telangana State comes into being as India’s 29th State. However, the court refused and listed the matter for August 20. Posting the matter till after June 2 is like a postmortem said MP Arun Kumar, who was keen to see the court ...

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 ...