Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Tuesday that the Telangana Bill, which was recently approved by the Cabinet and was supposed to be referred to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly by the President, has not been sent to the assembly as yet.
Responding to his decision on dividing Andhra without getting a resolution from the Andhra Pradesh State assembly, he said the central government was allowed to divide the state in absence of resolution from the concerned state.
"The creation of Telangana was promised in the 2004 manifesto and was announced already in 2009.So the undivided Andhra Pradesh knew what was going to happen," said Shinde.
"According to the law, the central government is allowed to divide the state in absence of a resolution from the concerned state," he added.
The Union Cabinet on Thursday had approved the parliamentary bill for the creation of Telangana with 10 districts.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, who read out the Cabinet statement in the national capital, said that the Cabinet approved the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM), set up to look into the issue of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
He said that the Cabinet also approved the draft Reorganization Bill prepared on the basis of the recommendations of GoM.
Furthermore, he said, that Telangana would comprise of 10 districts, and the successor state of Andhra Pradesh will comprise of 13 districts, and Hyderabad will be the common capital for both, for a period not exceeding 10 years.
He added that the Governor of Telangana would have special responsibility for the security of life, liberty and property of all those who reside in the common capital area and the Governor will be assisted by two advisors to be appointed by the Government.
