Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister-designate K Chandrasekhar Rao has called for a bandh on Thursday in protest against Cabinet clearance to the Polavaram project ordinance that merges seven mandals of Telanagana into Seemandhra. TRS leader K Kavitha has said that the party will approach the Supreme Court if the President promulgates the Ordinance.
While buses and autorickshaws are plying in Hyderabad, inter-district travel in Telangana has been affected. Districts in and around Khamman are facing a complete bandh.
K Chandrashekhara Rao is demanding that not an inch of Telangana should go to Seemandhra, the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh. "The Centre's move is undemocratic and amounts to betrayal of Telangana," the TRS president said, adding that the President should not accept the ordinance.
Since the TRS has come to power on its own in Telangana, the bandh is likely to be a success. The TRS has won 63 Assembly seats and 11 Lok Sabha seats in the recent Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Telangana will formally come into existence on June 2 as 29th State of the country, following bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Polavaram Irrigation Project Sadhana Samithi's convener Kolanukonda Shivaji had said that the new Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu should use his good offices to bring an ordinance on the Polavaram project before June 2, as discussed in the last session of Parliament when the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Bill, 2014, was passed.
Shivaji said that since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh would be completed by June 2, unless the Polavaram ordinance is brought before that date, the matter may have to be discussed again in Parliament.
Although the previous UPA government had declared Polavaram to be a 'national project, it was unable to bring the ordinance on the same as the model code of conduct had come into effect immediately after the last session of Parliament.
Shivaji said that a convention would be held here on Thursday to discuss the issue and the future course of action with all political parties.
(With additional information from PTI)
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