The Centre is set to give a final push to the formation of Telangana after the end of the monsoon session of Parliament on Friday. The Union Cabinet’s decision to formally approve a home ministry proposal on the matter will open the door for a flurry of action on the fraught issue.
This will be accompanied by the constitution of a group of ministers, likely to be headed by defence minister A K Antony, to draft a legislation for statehood.
Also, the Cabinet will forward a resolution to the Andhra assembly seeking its nod, though it is not mandatory. The Congress is firm on its decision irrespective of how the bitterly divided state House reacts to the resolution.
Sources said the process will not be protracted like in the case of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in 2000, and may be clinched before year-end. An optimistic senior leader said, “There will be two CMs by November-end.”
The Congress Working Committee’s decision last month triggered a wave of protests in coastal Andhra, largely because Hyderabad would be in Telangana as a shared capital till Andhra finds an alternative. But the ruling camp is undeterred by the hostility and is no mood to do a volteface like December 2009.
The bid to clinch statehood by year-end would test the ruling camp. A section of the non-Telangana bloc has aired concerns that migrants would be vulnerable in Hyderabad, which accounts for the maximum settler population and would fall in Telangana.
Sources said the Centre is likely to create a mechanism by which law and order in Hyderabad would be under the jurisdiction of the Centre till the capital is shared.
This will be accompanied by the constitution of a group of ministers, likely to be headed by defence minister A K Antony, to draft a legislation for statehood.
Also, the Cabinet will forward a resolution to the Andhra assembly seeking its nod, though it is not mandatory. The Congress is firm on its decision irrespective of how the bitterly divided state House reacts to the resolution.
Sources said the process will not be protracted like in the case of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in 2000, and may be clinched before year-end. An optimistic senior leader said, “There will be two CMs by November-end.”
The Congress Working Committee’s decision last month triggered a wave of protests in coastal Andhra, largely because Hyderabad would be in Telangana as a shared capital till Andhra finds an alternative. But the ruling camp is undeterred by the hostility and is no mood to do a volteface like December 2009.
The bid to clinch statehood by year-end would test the ruling camp. A section of the non-Telangana bloc has aired concerns that migrants would be vulnerable in Hyderabad, which accounts for the maximum settler population and would fall in Telangana.
Sources said the Centre is likely to create a mechanism by which law and order in Hyderabad would be under the jurisdiction of the Centre till the capital is shared.
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