While AP CM Chandrababu Naidu makes all positive noises about solving issues through dialogue with his TS counterpart, he continues to play the negative role in adhering to the AP Reorganisation Act or to the advice of Central Government bodies. Only yesterday the ERC rejected AP’s ‘PPA Cancellation’ exercise in a detailed report. Today, AP rejected those findings and continued to insist the PPAs are cancelled and so it can’t share power with Telangana. The AP Reorganisation Act ensured 53 per cent of the available supply to the new state while AP refuses to abide by it. AP has rejected guidelines from CEA, APERC, LDC, Union Power Ministry in the PPA issue till now and seems in no mood to abide by ...

The Kamalnathan Committee will be meeting on Wednesday to finalise guidelines for distribution of around 50,000 State level employees. The committee, which was flooded with thousands of suggestions over its draft guidelines uploaded 10 days ago, is expected to do some minor changes but leave critical demands on accommodating employees in respective native states to the 2 states to resolve on their own. The committee will discuss this in today’s meeting, make some recommendations and amends based on the discussions and forward the final guidelines to the Department of Personnel and Training for approval of the Prime Minister. The committee reportedly decided to have a coordination committee with the officials of State Reorganisation cells of both the States to oversee the options and allotment ...

Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy is getting into an overdrive to justify the Centre’s move to hand over powers over Hyderabad to Governor. He is writing to all Chief Ministers in the country saying the Centre has every right to take over powers over the State capital through the Governor and rule it by proxy! Just how the CMs of other States are supposed to welcome this is known to Kishan Reddy himself. Kishan Reddy condemned TS Govt’s criticism of the Centres’s move as a ‘misinformation campaign’ and opined that the AP Reorganisation Act 2014 has clearly mentioned that the Governor shall have special powers for the security of life, liberty and property of all those who reside in Hyderabad. The Union Home Ministry is simply ...

Telangana Congress MP, V Hanumantha Rao lashed out at the Centre’s moves to handover law & order powers to Governor and make TS Govt spectators in it’s own capital. He asked to Centre to straightaway impose President’s rule in Telangana and make AP CM Chandrababu Naidu the ruler of the State, instead of going through all this pain to make TS Govt toothless by taking away it’s power. He accused Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of hatching the conspiracy to impose Governor’s rule in Hyderabad and rule the city by proxy. He said the AP CM is unable to digest his debacle in Telangana and is trying to create problems here by vitiating the atmosphere. He expressed concern that there could be violence if the ...

AP Government led by Chandrababu Naidu suffered yet another setback for stepping out of line with regard to the PPA cancellation episode. The Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) on Monday night issued orders rejecting APGENCO’s unilateral ‘cancellation’ of the power purchase agreements (PPAs) that are with the commission. Chandrababu Naiud’s administration played havoc with newborn State Telangana with the cancellation drama and made Telangana lose close to 1350 MW of power. ERC’s orders comes as a relief for Telangana but it is yet to be seen if CM Naidu honors the decision. The CM earlier dismissed even the CEA’s authority to resolve the PPA issues. In a very detailed 34-page order on the PPA cancellation dispute between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, issued by Dr. V.Bhaskar, Chairman ...