The YSR Congress Party, which has been expressing apprehensions over the intentions of the munch excited meeting of two Telugu states chief ministers meeting on Saturday evening to `resolve bifurcation’ issues, accused that the out-come of the meeting was detrimental to the interests of Andhra Pradesh.
Moreover, the key out-come of the meeting formation of two panels with officials one panel and ministers another panel was termed as a `step backward’ by the opposition party in the state.
It questioned the need of forming fresh panels after the Sheila Bedi Committee made several recommendations regarding property disputes in the combined state. Moreover, it reminded that in the past decade, these recommendations have been discussed in several stages.
However, some recommendations were not accepted and the recommendations which were accepted were not implemented by the Telangana government. YCP lamented that it believes forming a new committee will set the discussions back to the starting point.
A day after talks between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart A. Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad, the YSR Congress found fault with the decisions taken. It stated that it is a time-consuming approach.
Former Minister Perni Nani and former MLA G. Srikhanth Reddy said that both the state governments are aware of the disputes between the two states, the unresolved issues, assets that need to be distributed, and the cases pending in the courts.
The YSRCP leaders also said that former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had told Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the meeting of the southern states’ chief ministers in Tirupati, the importance of focusing on unresolved issues, as Andhra Pradesh had seen no progress in a decade.
Home Minister Shah had assured that the issues would be resolved within the stipulated time frame. “Following this assurance, discussions on divided issues by the chief secretaries and officials of both states gained momentum under the auspices of the Union Home Ministry. We believe that forming a new committee without focusing on advancing these discussions will only result in further delays,” they said.
