Hyderabad, June 2 – There will be no dearth of cross-border rows after redrawing geographies to cleave the 10-district Telangana and 13 districts in residual Andhra Pradesh. Sharing of assets and other resources between the successor states will be no less agonising than the pangs of partition in a quarrelsome family.
Telangana chief ministerdesignate K. Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to go to the Supreme Court to stall work on the Polavaram project demanding that those villages in Khammam district of Telangana transferred to Andhra Pradesh be retained.
His counterpart, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, is opposed to it and is demanding that the BJP government treat the Polavaram project as a national project and bear the entire expenses to complete it at the earliest.
Naidu wants the Centre to initiate discussions with Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, which are the upper riparian states through which River Godavari runs, to create a Polavaram Project Authority and constitute Krishna, Godavari and Tungabhadra River Water Boards.
That is not all. Naidu, who is first off the block in doing the rounds in Delhi on May 30, has placed several demands before the central government for additional funds and tax incentives pleading that AP has “no capital, no major manufacturing facility of its own and is, therefore, beginning from scratch”.
KCR, on the other hand, is instituting a state advisory council, with experts drawn from different fields, to work on his vision and mission thoughts and then pursue vigorously for what is “Telangana’s rightful share”.
Sharing of employees is posing as another challenging issue after it is found that ‘non – natives’ of Telangana want to be part of the state’s administration. This is likely to be sorted out in a few weeks with the establishment of a grievance mechanism.
However, the biggest worry for both KCR and Naidu is to live up to their poll promises. Bankers are not pleased to know that among the first files they will sign is waiving off farm loans. This works out to a staggering Rs1.37 lakh crore of which AP accounts for Rs.87,600 crore and Telangana Rs.49, 564 crore.
-INDIA TODAY
